Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson calm preferring the dangers to separation

preferring the dangers to separation from their families

' Sunday TimesIt is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague

They include such fascinating characters as the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley and the animal- and bird-loving Lady Read

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Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson calm preferring the dangers to separationCooking 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 fulfilment 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.