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Cuisine in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert: Cholla Buds

Cuisine in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert: Cholla Buds

Posted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Cookbooks, Deserts, Food writing, Local foods, Photography, Southwest American4 Minutes Read

Nika Standen Hazelton: Remembering a Food Writer Chronicling a Lost World

Nika Standen Hazelton: Remembering a Food Writer Chronicling a Lost World

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, English Cooking, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Germany, Italian Cooking, Italy, Scandinavian Cooking4 Minutes Read

Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz: Remembering Her Latin American Food Writings

Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz: Remembering Her Latin American Food Writings

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, England, Europe, Food writing, France, Latin America, Mexican Cooking3 Minutes Read

Remembering Mireille Johnston: Memories of a French Food Writer on a Fall Day

Remembering Mireille Johnston: Memories of a French Food Writer on a Fall Day

Posted on March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, French Cooking3 Minutes Read

Remembering Jane Grigson, a British Food Writer Gone Too Soon*

Remembering Jane Grigson, a British Food Writer Gone Too Soon*

Posted on March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, English Cooking, Food writing4 Minutes Read

Remembering Penelope Casas, a Greek-American Food Writer with a Spanish Heart*

Remembering Penelope Casas, a Greek-American Food Writer with a Spanish Heart*

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Spain2 Minutes Read

Announcement: Podcasts Now Available for Some Blog Posts, But …

Announcement: Podcasts Now Available for Some Blog Posts, But …

Posted on March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Remembering a Mexican Female Chef: Patricia Quintana*

Remembering a Mexican Female Chef: Patricia Quintana*

Posted on March 10, 2021March 11, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks2 Minutes Read

Discovering Masa and More: A Taste of Honduras

Discovering Masa and More: A Taste of Honduras

Posted on March 2, 2021March 3, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Honduras4 Minutes Read

Velveeta and Wonder Bread: Cooking at the Pompeii of America

Velveeta and Wonder Bread: Cooking at the Pompeii of America

Posted on February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn United States5 Minutes Read

Writing a Memoir? Have I Got the Perfect Book for You.

Writing a Memoir? Have I Got the Perfect Book for You.

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Lit & Food, Writing3 Minutes Read

Hospitality, a Forgotten Concept in Today’s World: A Tale of Ice Cubes

Hospitality, a Forgotten Concept in Today’s World: A Tale of Ice Cubes

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food writing, Haiti3 Minutes Read

Memories of Chaos: Reflecting on Dictatorship

Memories of Chaos: Reflecting on Dictatorship

Posted on January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Haiti3 Minutes Read

Truth versus Belief

Truth versus Belief

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Critic's Corner, United States, Writing2 Minutes Read

Memory, My Old Friend

Memory, My Old Friend

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn France, Photography, Thailand3 Minutes Read

Smörgåsbord: Perfect for the 2020 Holiday Season

Smörgåsbord: Perfect for the 2020 Holiday Season

Posted on December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Christmas, Cooking, Food writing, Norway, Scandinavian Cooking2 Minutes Read

What I Miss Most about My Pre-Pandemic Life

What I Miss Most about My Pre-Pandemic Life

Posted on December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks2 Minutes Read

Holiday Shopping Made Easy – BOOKS!

Holiday Shopping Made Easy – BOOKS!

Posted on November 29, 2020November 29, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Christmas, Cookbooks, Holidays1 Minute Read

Thanksgiving, in the Time of COVID-19

Thanksgiving, in the Time of COVID-19

Posted on November 18, 2020December 17, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cranberries, Recipes, Thanksgiving, United States3 Minutes Read

A Kitchen in Exile

A Kitchen in Exile

Posted on November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Books, Mexican Cooking, Mexico, Pies--Sweet, Pumpkin4 Minutes Read

Yes, it’s Early, But …

Yes, it’s Early, But …

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Food writing1 Minute Read

Grief and Love Go Hand in Hand: Reflecting on Elizabeth Berg’s “I’ll Be Seeing You”

Grief and Love Go Hand in Hand: Reflecting on Elizabeth Berg’s “I’ll Be Seeing You”

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Books3 Minutes Read

Mexico’s Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)

Mexico’s Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)

Posted on October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Food writing, Halloween, Mexico9 Minutes Read

A Cookbook Addiction

A Cookbook Addiction

Posted on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, France, Writing3 Minutes Read

A Trip to the Bathroom, Being a Reflection on the Passing and the Passion (and the red-walled toilette) of M. F. K. Fisher

A Trip to the Bathroom, Being a Reflection on the Passing and the Passion (and the red-walled toilette) of M. F. K. Fisher

Posted on October 21, 2020October 23, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Critic's Corner, Food writing, Writing7 Minutes Read

Writing Memoir, or, Taking the Winding Road to All Those Forgotten Places

Writing Memoir, or, Taking the Winding Road to All Those Forgotten Places

Posted on October 19, 2020October 20, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Critic's Corner, Writing3 Minutes Read

I’ll Always Have Paris

I’ll Always Have Paris

Posted on October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food writing, France, Writing3 Minutes Read

Do You Smell Anything Cooking?

Do You Smell Anything Cooking?

Posted on October 4, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, United States2 Minutes Read

Setting Things Straight about Non-Traditional Publishing: A Very Short How-To Primer on Self-Publishing

Setting Things Straight about Non-Traditional Publishing: A Very Short How-To Primer on Self-Publishing

Posted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Writing4 Minutes Read

A Plethora of Food/Culinary Memoirs for Your Reading Pleasure

A Plethora of Food/Culinary Memoirs for Your Reading Pleasure

Posted on September 12, 2020December 3, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bibliographies, Books, Cookbooks, Reference, Writing15 Minutes Read

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British Food and Food History Links

  • * 15th-Century Cookery Books (Full Text)
  • * 39 Dishes from the First Christmas Menu, Published in 1660
  • * Britannia – Cooking
  • * British Cookbook Primer
  • * British Cookbooks, a Gift to America
  • * British Food
  • * British Food Bloggers
  • * British Food in America
  • * British Food: A History
  • * British History Online
  • * British, Scottish, Welsh Food & Cooking
  • * Chutney Recipes from Food Network UK
  • * Cookbooks – 18th Century Cookbooks (England, Scotland, America)
  • * Culinary History Online
  • * Culinary Jottings for Madras, by Col. Kenney-Henry
  • * Dictionary of Middle-English Cookery Terms
  • * DNA and the British Isles
  • * Elizabethan Era Resources
  • * English Cookbooks
  • * English Fairy Tales – Bibliography (quite stupendous, with links to full-text)
  • * Great British Chefs
  • * Heston Blumenthal's Web Site
  • * Historic Food by Ivan Day
  • * Ivan Day's Historic British Food
  • * Libraries – BOOKS FOR COOKS AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY
  • * Libraries – Fons Grewe Collection at University of Barcelona
  • * Map of British DNA Patterns
  • * Measuring Worth
  • * Medieval English Cookery Books
  • * Miss Foodwise
  • * Oxford University Press List of Links related to Britain's History
  • * Restaurants – Dishoom
  • * Stuart Peachey Food & Cookery Historical Booklets
  • * The British Library
  • * The Foods of England
  • * The Forme of Cury (Earliest English Cookbook)
  • * The National Archives UK
  • * Thomas Gloning’s Corpus of Culinary & Dietetic Texts of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800
  • * Vision of Britain (maps through history)
  • * Volume (Liquid) Converter to Metric
  • Cooking Terms (US/UK/NZ/AU/CA)
  • The English Diaspora

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