用一道甜點的製作過程，貫串了不同世代、地域、位階與角色性別的生命故事。作者與繪者攜手展現了對一項主題最細緻又充滿層次的思考，想必可以在親子共讀時，引發熱烈的討論。每個家庭的陳設、每段故事的場景，與故事裡所有角色的服裝，都值得大小讀者們細細品味。整本書就是一道精緻又散發文化底蘊與香氣的甜點，它的滋味呀，真是曼妙無比！──黃筱茵／童書翻譯評論工作者
「甜」原本就是人類天生喜好的滋味，而甜點不單是滿足人們的口腹之慾，本書作者更加入了時間的元素，讓「黑莓鮮奶油」這道庶民食物擁有自己獨特的風味，刻畫在不同時代的家庭記憶長廊裡。它彷彿一幅畫，用汁液為我們彩繪著生命情感的過去；也像一首詩，伴隨著攪拌器的聲響，記錄著辛勤與滿足的節奏；甚至你會覺得它是時光迴廊裡的某個瞬間，承載著歷史上那個再也回不去的曾經。-----FROM 中文簡介
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.
