9. Documenting Home Cooking with Rebecca May Johnson

In the first episode of this third season of the Salmon Pink Kitchen podcast, Irene and Margaux welcome writer and cook Rebecca May Johnson. 

With Rebecca, we returned to the basics of tomato sauce, cooking together over Zoom as we talked about documenting home cooking, Rebecca’s 10-year old dinner document blog, which has just been turned into a Substack, and her upcoming memoir Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, which will be published by Pushkin Press in August 2022. You can pre-order your copy here or from your favourite indie. 

‘Cooking is thinking,’ as Rebecca says, and in this moving conversation we discussed the marks we leave and the revolutions that can start from the kitchen. We can’t wait for you to join us at the hob.

Some news! Our very own Margaux Vialleron has written a novel (!!!). The Yellow Kitchen will be published by Simon & Schuster on 7th July 2022 and you can pre-order your copy from your favourite bookshops and retailers! 

Recommendations from today’s episode:

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

Substack: dinner document by Rebecca May Johnson

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book by Alice B. Toklas 

Look Here by Ana Kinsella

Marcella Hazan’s cookbooks

McGee on Food and Cooking: an Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture by Harold McGee

Olia Hercules’ salo recipe from Summer Kitchens

400 Ricette della Cucina Piacentina cookbook edited by Carmen Artocchini

‘My Life is not my own. I eat, breathe and sleep this’: the single mother who has fed 100,000 neighbours as published in The Guardian 

Cookery classes at Bottega Caruso in Margate

Franchi: seeds of Italy

The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs