Wisdom Soaked in Palm Oil: Food & Flavors of Africa, a New Book Forthcoming

Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Books, Photography1 Minute Read

Any-Time-of-the-Year Resolutions for Writers

Posted on December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Writing2 Minutes Read

The Longest Night: Ramblings on the Darker Side of the Christmas Season

Posted on December 21, 2019December 31, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Christmas, Cookbooks, Cooking3 Minutes Read

Joy to the World: A Look at the 9th Edition of “Joy of Cooking”

Posted on December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Book Reviews, Books, Cookbooks, Photography, Reference6 Minutes Read

Holidays are A'Comin' – Break Out the Gifts

Posted on December 11, 2019December 21, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Writing1 Minute Read

Fishing for Meaning: Fate, Destiny, and Heimarmene

Posted on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Spain, Writing2 Minutes Read

Doors Open, Doors Close: Life’s Little Lessons

Posted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Spain3 Minutes Read

And the Return

Posted on November 17, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Back to Barcelona

Posted on November 15, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Castillo de Arteaga and Gaztelugatxe

Posted on November 13, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Santiago de Compostela

Posted on November 11, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Ponferrada

Posted on November 9, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

San Lorenzo de Escorial

Posted on November 9, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Madrid 2

Posted on November 7, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Disaster, or How to Ruin a Vacation with One Tiny Misstep

Posted on November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Spain1 Minute Read

Madrid 1

Posted on November 4, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Zaragoza

Posted on November 3, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Barcelona Markets

Posted on November 1, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Barcelona

Posted on October 30, 2019October 29, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Flying High, Above the Plains of Spain

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

The Armchair Traveler’s Spain: Books and Stories Guaranteed to Saturate Your Soul with Duende

Posted on October 16, 2019October 18, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bibliographies, Books, Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference, Spanish cooking4 Minutes Read

The Perfect Book for National Mushroom Day!

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Mushrooms, Photography, Reference, Writing1 Minute Read

Don Quixote and Me

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Spanish cooking3 Minutes Read

Homage to La Cocina Española? Where are the Books?

Posted on October 2, 2019October 3, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Food writing, Spain, Spanish cooking4 Minutes Read

The Rice in Spain, Not So Easy to Explain

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Cookbooks, Rice, Spain, Spanish cooking6 Minutes Read

“In the Shadow of Ravens: A Novel” Just Published!!!

Posted on September 20, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Cooking Like a Catalan, No Matter Where You Are

Posted on September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Photography, Spanish cooking3 Minutes Read

For Me, All Roads Lead to Spain

Posted on August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Photography, Reference, Spain, Spanish cooking5 Minutes Read

Novel Due Out Soon: In the Shadow of Ravens

Posted on August 10, 2019August 10, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Food writing1 Minute Read

11 Years of Writing About Food and Culinary History – A Blog Anniversary!!!

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Cookbooks, Cooking, Photography, Reference5 Minutes Read

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My 3rd Book – A Story of Witchcraft, Healing, & Love

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My 1st Book – Mushroom: A Global History

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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)
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