A BRACINGLY ORIGINAL, BOUNDARY BREAKING EXPLORATION OF COOKING AND THE KITCHEN, FROM A RISING STAR IN FOOD WRITING
A manifesto for reclaiming cooking as an intellectual… a brave, honest book. (SUNDAY TIMES)
An intense thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking, which stayed with me long after I finished reading it. -- NIGELLA LAWSON
Rich in pleasure and revelation. (OBSERVER)
Small Fires reinvents cooking – that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, splattering 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 meaning of appetite and bodily pleasure; the wild subversiveness of the recipe; the power of small fires burning everywhere.
