“If she could communicate as easily with words as she could with butter, flour, and sugar, she would've saved a lot of time (and a lot of calories) spent standing at the tiny kitchen counter in the tiny apartment that she shared with her roommate, Owen, mixing cookie dough by hand because there was no room for a stand mixer, coaxing lemon curd to thicken on the ancient electric-coil stove, and waiting for the chocolate cheesecake to set up in the crowded fridge next to all of Owen's protein shakes.”