Small fires

an epic in the kitchen

A bracing original debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint, and revolution.

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Title Statement	Small fires: an epic in the kitchen / Rebecca May Johnson.
Author	Johnson, Rebecca May
Publication	London: Pushkin Press,2022.
Extent of Item	191 pages ;
ISBN	9781911590484 (hardcover)
Other Number	pr07037929
Contents	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188).
Summary	A bracing original debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint, and revolution.
By Topic	Cooking--Social aspects
	Kitchens in literature
	Sex role
	Women--Social conditions
	Kitchens--Social aspects
By Name	Johnson, Rebecca May