Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
By: Rebecca May Johnson
3.75
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
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4.13
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2. Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
By: Nigel Slater
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Format: 496 pages,
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3. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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4. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
5. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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6. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home
By: Anya von Bremzen
3.55
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more
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7. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
8. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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9. Alphabetical Diaries
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4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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10. Small Bodies of Water
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4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
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11. No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
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3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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12. Practice
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3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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13. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
By: Rebecca May Johnson
3.75
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more
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"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
14. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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15. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
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"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
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16. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
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4.05
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3.97
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3.31
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19. Hungry Heart: How the food we love shapes our lives
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4.07
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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21. London Feeds Itself
By: Jonathan Nunn
4.60
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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