A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat

A New York Times Best Illustrated Book From highly acclaimed author Jenkins and Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator Blackall comes a fascinating picture book in which four families, in four different cities, over four centuries, make the same delicious dessert: blackberry fool. This richly detailed book ingeniously shows how food, technology, and even families have changed throughout American history. In 1710, a girl and her mother in Lyme, England, prepare a blackberry fool, picking wild blackberries and beating cream from their cow with a bundle of twigs. The same dessert is prepared by an enslaved girl and her mother in 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina; by a mother and daughter in 1910 in Boston; and finally by a boy and his father in present-day San Diego. Kids and parents alike will delight in discovering the differences in daily life over the course of four centuries. Includes a recipe for blackberry fool and notes from the author and illustrator about their research.

• | Author: Emily Jenkins
• | Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
• | Publication Date: Jan 27, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 44 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0375868321
• | ISBN-13: 9780375868320