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Category: Africa

Deep Blue Seas and Ancient Olive Trees: Cooking Mediterranean March 3, 2025March 4, 2025
A Meditation on Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something Like Grace” March 2, 2023November 20, 2024
Escaping to Morocco, via the Magic Carpet of Memory: COVID-19 Isolation, Day 62 (I Think) November 10, 2022April 19, 2023
“Stoves & Suitcases” Book Trailer! February 20, 2022February 20, 2022
Cabbage and Black-Eyed Peas, Oh My! A New Year’s Tradition in the South December 31, 2021November 20, 2024
Midwest Book Review on “Stoves & Suitcases” November 8, 2021April 19, 2023
Writing about Food IS Writing October 16, 2021November 19, 2024
On the Borderlands September 25, 2021September 26, 2021
Cooking in Africa: Memories and Reflections During COVID-19 Isolation May 20, 2020April 19, 2023
Escaping to Morocco, via the Magic Carpet of Memory: COVID-19 Isolation, Day 62 (I Think) May 4, 2020May 8, 2020
“Wisdom Soaked in Palm Oil: Journeying Through the Food and Flavors of Africa” My Newest Book Now Available!! March 12, 2020March 12, 2020
Maryse Condé’s “Of Morsels and Marvels”: A New Book by a Not-to-be-Missed Writer of Style and Substance February 9, 2020November 21, 2024

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Books By Cynthia D. Bertelsen

A book of reflective essays, including a section on life during COVID-19. Winner of a bronze medal in the Autobiography/Memoir category from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association, 2024. Finalist in the Prose/Anthology category, Royal Palm Literary Awards, Florida Writers Association, 2024.
Semi-Finalist, Florida Writers Association, 2023, Anthology category. Bronze Medalist, Florida Authors and Publishers Association 2023.

Semi-Finalist, Florida Writers Association Anthology 2023. Bronze Medalist Florida Authors and Publishers Association 2023.

Winner, Gourmand Best in the USA and the World 2023; Silver medal winner, Florida Author and Publishers Association, 2023

Best in the World Winner 2022, Food Writing Category, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

REVIEWS:

Kirkus Reviews

Midwest Book Review

Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2021; Silver Medal Winner 2022, Florida Authors and Publishers Association

Winner of Best in the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards in Culinary History and Praised by Publishers Weekly as “a remarkable book.”

My Book about Africa, Now Available!

A Story of Witchcraft, Healing, & Love

My First Book – Mushroom: A Global History

My book, now available! On Kindle, too!

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