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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.

故事讲述了四个世纪，四个家庭，制作同一种甜点的故事。这个甜点将人类的情感联结，将人类与美食联结。虽然在四个世纪里环境变了、人物变了、制作甜点的工具变了，可是*不变的是家庭与亲情的温暖。不得不说，这本书无论从内容和绘画制作都堪称经典。这道令人念念不忘的传统美食都蕴藏着深厚的文化基础和信仰价值，因此我们享用传统美食，不只是品尝浓郁的美味，更是在品味源远流长的文化礼赞。虽然东西方的传统美食不同，但是基于美食之上，人们之间的情感得以代代相传。