The Desk Book Club: ‘Small Fires’ January Discussion ❤️🔥
Oil splatter, apron strings, and the start of an epic.
“Pleasure is the baseline,” writes Rebecca May Johnson.
When I first opened Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, which she was kind enough to have sent to me in UK galley form in 2022, I was stunned: We’re allowed to write about food like this? I didn’t know!
The writing here was propulsive, aware of what it was doing to people’s expectations of the food …
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