![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Author Emily Jenkins says she wanted to write a food-related picture book for a while when she happened to read somewhere that fool (a simple dish made with berries, cream and sugar) is one of the oldest desserts in Western culture, it sparked the idea of adding a historical element to A Fine Dessert. While leaping through time and across continents, we see the dish made by a farmer’s wife and her daughter in England in 1710 a plantation slave and her daughter in South Carolina in 1810 a woman and her daughter in Boston in 1910 and finally by a father and son in San Diego in 2010. Readers of all ages will lick their lips as they witness the preparation of the blackberry fool at the heart of A Fine Dessert. ![]()
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