Friday Culinary Links II

Baking with Sylvia Edition

In 1963 Sylvia Plath wrote:


What a thrill --
My thumb instead of an onion.


Apparently, Sylvia was more of a baker.

Like many intellectual women, Sylvia complemented her fierce writing endeavors with tangible domestic items: roses, pies, time in the kitchen. Once she planned a short story called Day of the Twenty Four Cakes, in which a young wife who has fought with her husband bakes a cake an hour for an entire day. This strange and interesting essay, about a woman baking obsessively while also writing a book about Plath, offers other fascinating pictures of obsession, writing, and the kitchen.

I have work to do. But I plan to publish a fabulous dinner recipe later today!