One August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson’s feet: the same one she had used to bake her wedding cake twenty-three years prior. This discovery struck a wave of emotions that propelled her in search of others who have invested kitchen objects with magical and personal properties. A favorite wooden spoon or a saltshaker inherited from a parent: these and other items become powerful symbols of identity and memory, representing friendship, grief, love, superstition, safety, and political resistance. Crossing continents, cultures, and time periods, Wilson weaves her own family story into a wider narrative, highlighting objects such as a 5,000-year-old ancient Ecuadorian ceramic bottle used for drinking chocolate, hand-shaped kitchen tongs, vintage corkscrews, and her mother’s silver-plated toast rack. Thoughtful, sharp, and beautifully written, The Heart-Shaped Tin is a profoundly moving examination of our relationship to the physical world-and the people around us-in an increasingly rational and secular age.

Other cookbooks by this author

• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• First Bite
• First Bite
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
• The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects
• The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
• Sandwich: A Global History
• Sandwich: A Global History
• Sandwich
• The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
• The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
• The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
• Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
• Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats
• The secret of cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
• The secret of cooking
• This Is Not a Diet Book: A User’s Guide to Eating Well
• The Way We Eat Now
• The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World
• The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World