Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

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Tembok bisa runtuh dengan cookies gratis yang ku bawa ke bookclub, cinnamon roll untuk teman yang sakit, dan pudding untuk adik yang pulang kuliah. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. Each performance of a recipe is a translation, in which a cook figures out “what they want to say when cooking.

Small Fires, An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson Small Fires, An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson

This joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen. About recipes—what they bring to the table, what they don't, how we follow a recipe (to the dot, intuition, no measurement cooking etc. Ketidakadilan ini dibahas oleh penulis dengan ringan dan witty, walaupun aku merasa tidak nyambung dengan beberapa jokes-nya yang mungkin segmented.A pairing that maybe does not naturally suggest itself feels essential, long before the end of the book. A particularly memorable passage, which Johnson refers to as “the sausage chapter,” slices apart the psychoanalyst DW Winnicott’s description of cooking from a recipe as the antithesis of creativity. Where she lived, what she looked like, who she cooked for: so many external details changed, but this most improvisational of dishes stayed the same. Harriet [Moore], my agent, brought me a few different books, and also that summer, I read Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts.

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Which is a sensibility, a rejection of a particular aesthetic, that is threaded through the entirety of the book. It’s also hard to come up with the sort of insight that’d reel in the big likes (which for me, on goodreads, is anywhere between three and 12) because the book is so refreshingly open and direct about the work it is seeking to do. SMALL FIRES was a revelation for this non-cook, through its insights and poetic prose about the culinary life and how cooking has often been viewed as "women's work done out of love," rather than a means to personal growth and insight.

In our world yes that is to a great extent true but than it is up to each and every one of us to really consider the value of an object or a deed.