OP: Pot on the Fire
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North Point Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. Fine. Signed first printing.
Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire are a natural trilogy, following (though, somewhat unchronologically) John Thorne’s education and progression as a cook. By the time we get to Pot on the Fire, Thorne is in adulthood, his meals no longer being determined by parental supervision, nor reflective of the struggle food penniless young adults concoct, proudly and independently, if not ineptly.
Here, Thorne has developed his own identity; he is at one with his knife: “[M]y knife is what I reach for when I need to do some cutting. Because, at this point, I am no longer reaching for a thing but reconnecting to a relationship—a relationship that remains more or less the same even if the knife itself has not.” Now he luxuriates in his competence and slightly more sophisticated palate.
Our copy is a Fine first printing double signed by John and Matt Lewis Thorne.
