Receta Because I Could Not Stop For Death...I Baked Him This Gingerbread. Emily Dickinsons Killer Gingerbread.

        I love the poetry of Emily Dickinson, always have.  I studied her in school, read her works for my own pleasure, read her letters... (note to self: burn everything) but it wasn't until recently that I learned that during her life she was better known for her cooking and baking than she was for the written word. There was a recent  excellent essay in the New Yorker which explains a lot of the problems she had back in the day with the ways in which one got published, and how much control an author had oven her own works and how they were presented to the public. After reading it I realized that were she around today she'd probably have an artisanal bakery somewhere in Amherst with top Yelp ratings, and her hand written…