What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the
understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book
explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of
cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one's meals at risk on a
daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author's
anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new
approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can
reshape our understanding of social processes more generally.