I made the cake from "Dickinson," an underrated feat of domestic labor
comments In "Fame is a fickle food," the second episode of "Dickinson" this season, Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) presents her family with a gigantic cake. It's not particularly attractive — a dark and dense multilayered fruit cake that's made with five pounds of raisins and soaked in brandy for a month — but it's deeply flavorful. Her family goes around the table, assuring her that it's perfect. It needs to be, she says, if it's going to win the baking contest held at the annual Amherst Cattle Show. Last year, Emily came in second, and that felt like a failure. "I'm going to gi...
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