TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Rebecca May
TI  - Small fires: an epic in the kitchen 
SN  - 9781911590484
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Pushkin Press
KW  - Cooking
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Kitchens
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Kitchens in literature
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188); Prologue in the kitchen -- Apron strings -- The semiotics of the kitchen -- Cooking is a method -- The kitchen is a weaving room -- Hot red epic -- Tracing the sauce text -- Unlovely translations -- Refusing the recipe -- Consider the sausage! -- Again and again, there is that you -- Every day a new dawn, a new dish
N2  - "Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfillment leads directly out of the kitchen. In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a vital source of knowledge and revelation. Drawing on insights from ten years spent thinking through cooking, she explores the radical openness of the recipe text, the liberating constraint of apron strings and the transformative intimacies of shared meals. Playfully dissolving the boundaries between abstract intellect and bodily pleasure, domesticity and politics, Johnson awakens us to the richness of cooking as a means of experiencing the self and the world - and to the revolutionary potential of the small fires burning in every kitchen"--Publisher's description
ER  -