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Eating My Words: Food, Writing, & Food Writing for Creative Omnivores

When I saw the ingredients list for this particular cake, my Spidey sense started tingling. Was it… ? Could it be… ? I was at work, so I texted Bryan: this is a weird question but do we have three apples? When he said three apples exactly I felt better than I had all day. The recipe, in addition to the pantry ingredients I tend to always have on hand, called for two egg whites and three apples. I had exactly two already-separated egg whites in the fridge, and as Bryan confirmed, exactly three apples. It was a small thing, but it was so exciting.​​

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About Lily C. Buday

Lily C. Buday is originally from northern Michigan, where she learned to write semi-obsessively about lakes and water. Her work has been published in Chautauqua, GASHER, Joyland Magazine, and Salt Hill Journal.

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