{"product_id":"small-fires","title":"Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen","description":"\u003cp\u003e“An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking.” -- Nigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most original food books I’ve ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious.” -- Olivia Laing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bracingly original, revelatory debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint and revolution, by a rising star in food writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -- that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, spattering red hot sauce on our books -- as a way of experiencing ourselves and the world. Cooking is thinking: about the liberating constraint of tying apron strings; the transformative dynamics of shared meals; the meaning of appetite and bodily pleasure; the wild subversiveness of the recipe, beyond words or control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall Fires shows us the radical potential of the thing we do every day: the power of small fires burning everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48206180253985,"sku":"9781911590484","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9781911590484.jpg?v=1714486412","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/small-fires","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}