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.
Includes a recipe for blackberry fool and notes from the author and illustrator about their research..
Kids and parents alike will delight in discovering the differences in daily life over the course of Four centuries.
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.
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.
This richly detailed book ingeniously shows how food, technology, and even Families have changed throughout American history.
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
