And the very last thing I did? I licked the bowl.” With the leftover blackberries, I made the fine dessert and I served it to my family. “After I’d painted the last dot on the last page, I squished blackberries through a sieve with a spoon and used the purple juice to paint the endpapers. Once I knew it was blackberry juice I wanted to lick the page! Her illustrations are perfect and delicate.īlackall painted the endpapers with blackberry juice, guys. Likewise, Blackall talks about the research she did to show the differences in clothing, season and location, and emotional state of those making, eating, and serving such a fine dessert.
Jenkins goes into detail about the research she undertook and the deliberate decisions she made to show slavery and the feminization of domestic work. The notes from both author and illustrator at the end of the book really put this book over the top for me. But we see the changes in how they get the ingredients, the tools they use to make it, how long it takes, who is making it… and who gets it eat it. The recipe for Blackberry Fool is made over the centuries with the same ingredients. A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat by Emily Jenkinsįour centuries.
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