A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries Four Families One Delicious Treat

A New York Times Best Illustrated BookFrom 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.