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Remembering the Magic and Wishing for Peace on Earth

December 16, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

I dedicate this post to the children and the parents, everywhere, especially Newtown, Connecticut. Every year, in December, a marvelous thing happens. At least I think it’s wonderful. And not for the reasons you might think. Christmas comes around, bringing with it a sense of magic in the air, some thing that I felt as a child. And lest you think me not sensitive to the cultural experiences of those who do not celebrate Christmas, I say that no matter […]

Categories: Christmas, Editorials, Festivals, Photography • Tags: Children, Christmas, Gingerbread, Magic

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Zeus (Photo credit: Gord Spence)

Honey, I’m Cooking!

October 1, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

As an infant, Zeus, the Greek god of gods, fed on milk and honey, or so the story goes. And in Exodus 3:8 (KJV), Moses states, “And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey … “ By these ancient words, we know that honey served as an important food […]

Categories: American Cooking, Cakes, Cooking, Desserts, English Cooking, Honey • Tags: Apicius, Bartolomeo Scappi, Cheesecake, Cooks, Gingerbread, Honey, Martha Washington, Mary Randolph, Scappi's Opera, Zeus

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Gingerbread men (Photo credit: Gaetan Lee)

“A New Birth of Freedom”: Senator Feinstein Announces 2009 Inaugural Theme

November 9, 2008 by Cynthia Bertelsen

If the presidential campaign and election of President-elect Barack Obama revered a patron saint, Abraham Lincoln would be the man. The great American poet and Lincoln biographer, Carl Sandburg, tells a story about Lincoln and gingerbread in his Prairie Years II, a story that Abe told in his fourth debate with Stephen A. Douglas – it may be an apocryphal story, as the only line in the transcripts of the debates seems to be the last one: “When we lived […]

Categories: Food News • Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Cooking, Food, Gingerbread, Inauguration 2009

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