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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.… (altro)
I expected to love this book. And I didn't. As Johnson's life unfolds, as she travels, studies and works throughout England and Europe her cooking skills, once minimal, develop. At first she cooks tomato sauce, obsessively. She sticks to the recipe, she tweaks, she ignores. She discusses the act of wearing an apron. She cooks for herself, she shares the meals she prepares, and cares about the dynamics of sharing food. She considers the reactions of various authors to food and cooking. And really, the more the book went on, the less I cared. No book is for everyone, and this one wasn't for me. ( )
I was prepared to love Small Fires. I really enjoyed some chapters, especially where she talks about writing about food, care-work, cooking as a way to produce knowledge, etc. But I had to labour through the book when she introduces her relationship to recipes. I felt like I was reading someone's journal, which I wasn't prepared for. I read Johnson's essay on the portrayal of food in Mermaids, which I loved, I suppose I carried that sensibility and expectation to Small Fires as well. ( )
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The village is always on fire
Men stay away from the kitchens
take up in outhouses with concrete floors,
while the women – soot in their hair –
initiate the flames into their small routines.
'Untitled', Sophie Collins
Poor fool! His food and drink are not of earth.
'Prologue in Heaven', Faust, Goethe, trans. Anna Swanwick
Dedica
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for Zoë
Incipit
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I tried to write about cooking, but I wrote a hot red epic.
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Outside the wind is roaring the turbines are turning and in the kitchen the air is singing the air is singing Marcella, it is singing garlic tomato turning sweet and intensifying, the oil is becoming redder and redder, and it is breaking free and spattering the sides of the pan; the fragrance in the air has become a siren-song, the edges between things have blurred and become indistinct, there are not singers, there is a chorus
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.
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