104 - The Keepers: Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen

Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 1:04 a.m.

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Deep in the hidden archives of Harvard\\u2019s Houghton Library are the butter stained recipes of Emily Dickinson. Who knew? Emily Dickinson was better known by most as a baker than a poet in her lifetime. In this story a beautiful line up of \\u201cKeepers\\u201d\\u2014 dedicated archivists, librarians, historians, Thornton Wilder, Patti Smith, and more\\u2014lead us through the complex labyrinth of Emily Dickinson\\u2019s hidden kitchen. A world of black cake, gingerbread, slant rhyme, secret loves, family scandals, and poems composed on the backs of coconut cake recipes and chocolate wrappers.

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