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Bee is an award-winning food writer, reviewer and journalist, currently author of 'The Kitchen Thinker' food column for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine (for which she has been named food journalist of the year three times by the Guild of Food Writers). She is the author of four previous books, most notably THE HIVE (John Murray), SWINDLED (John Murray) and CONSIDER THE FORK, published by Particular Books/Penguin Press and by Basic Books/Perseus in the US. Before she became a food writer, she was a Research Fellow in the History of ideas at St John’s College Cambridge. Many years ago, she was a Masterchef semi-finalist. She is married with three children and lives in Cambridge.
‘Bee Wilson’s study of kitchen objects passed down through generations, The Heart-Shaped Tin, offers an intimate new way of telling a life … This is a wonderful and original book, which has made me look at ‘stuff’ in a different way. I didn’t think I would love it as much as I did’ Tanya Gold, Telegraph 5-star review ‘Bee Wilson is one of my favourite writers and this may be her best book. It is about love, and loss, life and death. About what to keep and what to discard. It covers superstition, magic and more than anything it is a manual for recovery. Toast racks, pressure cookers, baby food scissors – these are some of the tools that Wilson uses to reckon with, and answer, the most profound questions about the human condition. Full of joy and hope, this book will be an antidote to sadness in any reader’ Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People 'Heart-wrenching and heart-warming in equal measure. No one is so good at capturing the everyday magic of kitchens, cooking and life as Bee Wilson' Letitia Clark, author of Bitter Honey 'Bee Wilson’s beautiful, melancholy book gave me permission to get out and enjoy the breadboard I took from my beloved late aunt’s kitchen. Her generous understanding of why stuff matters to us is a humane rebuke to the declutterers, and she shows just how a melon baller, a toast-rack and a charity-shop platter can indeed bring joy' Emma Smith, author of Portable Magic ‘I loved this book … Very few food writers can do what Bee does. It made me think again – and with more tenderness – about the kitchen objects that I ordinarily take for granted. These are the human stories embedded in our material culture, and Bee brings them effortlessly to life’ Ruby Tandoh, author of Eat Up 'A moving and fascinating exploration of the vital role played by household objects in our love of home and family' Sophie Hannah, author of Couple at the Table
