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Real Mayonnaise, Real Food? Or Just Sanctimonious Snobbery?

Real Mayonnaise, Real Food? Or Just Sanctimonious Snobbery?

Posted on October 19, 2014October 19, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Critic's Corner, Local foods, Locavores, Nutrition6 Minutes Read

Worshipping Different Gods … The French (Food) Reformation

Worshipping Different Gods … The French (Food) Reformation

Posted on November 2, 2011December 13, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, French Cooking, Local foods, Locavores, Photography2 Minutes Read

The Man Who …

The Man Who …

Posted on August 29, 2011August 27, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, France, French Cooking, Local foods, Locavores1 Minute Read

Is Cooking Necessary?*

Is Cooking Necessary?*

Posted on October 4, 2010October 4, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cooking, Local foods, Locavores, Recipes, Science of cooking3 Minutes Read

Dig for Victory! Locavorism in Eons Past

Dig for Victory! Locavorism in Eons Past

Posted on December 31, 2009December 31, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, American Cooking, Art, Cooking, England, English Cooking, Europe, Gardens, Hunger, Local foods, Locavores, Posters, United States1 Minute Read

The Feat of Feasting

The Feat of Feasting

Posted on November 16, 2009November 16, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Italian Cooking, Local foods, Locavores, Menus, Thanksgiving4 Minutes Read

Fresh: A Look at the Meaning of Freshness and the Refrigeration Revolution

Fresh: A Look at the Meaning of Freshness and the Refrigeration Revolution

Posted on June 15, 2009June 15, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Book Reviews, Locavores3 Minutes Read

Reveling in Books: DIY (Old) Food, Knowledge Lost and Now Found

Reveling in Books: DIY (Old) Food, Knowledge Lost and Now Found

Posted on June 11, 2009June 11, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, American Cooking, Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Cookbooks, French Cooking, Locavores3 Minutes Read

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

My 2nd Book – Winner of Best in the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards and Praised by Publishers Weekly as “a remarkable book.”

Local Author Series – 11/24/19

My 1st Book – Mushroom: A Global History

My book, now available! On Kindle, too!

Near Meknes, Morocco

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More about Mushroom: A Global History

You’ll find Mushroom: A Global History widely available on many book sellers’ sites.

The book deals with the culinary history of mushrooms. It is NOT a book about mycology, nor does it pretend to be.

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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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