Skip to content

Cynthia D. Bertelsen's Gherkins & Tomatoes

A Writer's Musings on Nature and Culture, Since 2008

  • Home
  • About Cynthia D. Bertelsen’s Gherkins & Tomatoes + Contact Us
  • More about the author
  • Online Cookbooks and Other Culinary Materials: Sources

Hunger is the Best Sauce

Hunger is the Best Sauce

Posted on November 11, 2009November 11, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Agriculture, Bibliographies, Bread, Cooking, Ethiopia, Europe, Evolution, Italian Cooking, Local foods, Methods, United States4 Minutes Read

Fish in the Diets of Early Modern Humans in China 40,000 Years Ago — Direct Evidence

Fish in the Diets of Early Modern Humans in China 40,000 Years Ago — Direct Evidence

Posted on July 18, 2009July 14, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Archaeology, China, Evolution, Fish1 Minute Read

The Nose Knows

The Nose Knows

Posted on July 4, 2009July 4, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Evolution, Spain2 Minutes Read

Category: Evolution

Looking for Something Specific?

The Author

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 3,004 other followers

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

My 2nd Book – 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!

My Amazon Author Page

Click on the photo to go my Amazon.com Author Page.

 

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.

Book Reviews by Cynthia Bertelsen

Reviews for The Roanoke Times

Reviews for New York Journal of Books

 

Posts Since 2008

Topics You’ll Find Here

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Instagram with a Florida Flavor

Big batch of sofrito getting done.
Tostones! First learned about them in Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico. Then cooked them in Honduras while associated with United Brands in La Lima.
Cuban picadillo with fried potatoes and an egg, a caballo.
The Master's study.

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

WordPress.com.