Ginger and Baker February Book Club

Date and Time

• Tuesday, Feb 3, 2026  6pm - 8pm

Location

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Details

**Registration will go live on 12/1/25

Join Ginger and the team for a lively discussion on this month’s food themed book, The Heart Shaped Tin by Bee Wilson.

Food and drink will be available for purchase during the event and a complimentary snack from the book will be served.

In order to reserve your space, there is a ticket fee of $10. This fee will be used as a credit toward food/drink purchased at book club.

Visit Old Firehouse Books in Old Town to purchase your book – Book Club books purchased at Old Firehouse the month before or month of book club receive a 20% discount for being a part of the Ginger and Baker Book Club!

More about The Heart Shaped Tin by Bee Wilson.

One August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson’s 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 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.

If you are looking to dive into next month’s delicious read, in March we will be reading High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris.

This event is produced by an outside organization and is unaffiliated with the Downtown Development Authority. The DDA website serves as a marketing outlet for events and promotions occurring inside the Downtown boundary. For questions regarding the event, please contact the event producer.