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Tea, cakes with Emily Dickinson.(TASTE)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20021024
Author:Nelson, Rick

Byline: Rick Nelson; Staff Writer

Within the first two minutes of "The Belle of Amherst," the luminous one-woman play currently lighting up the stage at St. Paul's Park Square Theatre, Emily Dickinson is revealed as not only a gifted poet, but an accomplished baker, too.

The play - written by William Luce and starring Linda Kelsey - opens with the eccentric Miss Dickinson extolling her prowess in the kitchen and rattling off the ingredients of her signature Black Cake. To say that the recipe is something of an undertaking is a bit of an understatement.

"I get the ...

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