How long does it take to read A Fine Dessert?
Emily Jenkins, Sophie Blackall
A Fine Dessert by Emily Jenkins, Sophie Blackall takes about 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 48 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2015. 44 pages, about 12,100 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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. Includes a recipe for Blackberry Fool.
Subjects: history of cooking, picture book, family, multi-generational, American history, Desserts
