**A BRACINGLY ORIGINAL, BOUNDARY BREAKING EXPLORATION OF COOKING AND THE KITCHEN, FROM A RISING STAR IN FOOD WRITING **

**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.