Now that fruits from around the world are readily available to us at any time of the year, we have lost some of our appreciation for the berries that can be picked much closer to home, suggests Roger Yepsen. Celebrating berries as "edible jewels, compounded of sunlight and soil and floral perfume," Yepsen considers here such traditional fare as blueberries and strawberries, but also elderberries, black currants, snowberries, and rose hips. Yepsen's lovely watercolor paintings appear throughout, and the book contains recipes for Pink Raspberry Lemonade, Blackberry Martini, Tea and Elderberry Sorbet, Blueberry Buckle, and the Scottish trifle known as Whim Wham, among many others.