104 - The Keepers: Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen
The Kitchen Sisters Present
The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Deep in the hidden archives of Harvard’s 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 “Keepers”— dedicated archivists, librarians, historians, Thornton Wilder, Patti Smith, and more—lead us through the complex labyrinth of Emily Dickinson’s 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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| 1:25.0 | That's Elaine Hardman. |
| 1:27.0 | She lives in a little town in upstate New York, a very little town. |
| 1:31.0 | She's a Potter and a former teacher. My daughter, Emily Hardman, and she wanted us to go visit |
| 1:37.0 | her daughter at the Houghton Library at Harvard University and to take an archaeological dig into a recipe. |
| 1:45.4 | Emily Dickinson's cake recipe. |
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