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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 give this town a moist, sticky, generously spiced ass-kicking, she declares.