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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

Meatballs & Lefse: Memories and Recipes from a Scandinavian-American Farming Life

Meatballs & Lefse: Memories and Recipes from a Scandinavian-American Farming Life

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Lit & Food, Photography, United States, Wisconsin, Writing1 Minute Read

And More Gifts: A Selection of Food and Culinary History Books Published in 2013

And More Gifts: A Selection of Food and Culinary History Books Published in 2013

Posted on December 15, 2013January 3, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Books, Cookbooks, Lit & Food, Reference18 Minutes Read

What the Crystal Ball Never Reveals: A Few Words about Blogging

What the Crystal Ball Never Reveals: A Few Words about Blogging

Posted on August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Lit & Food, Photography3 Minutes Read

Ivan Day: Master Food Historian

Ivan Day: Master Food Historian

Posted on February 25, 2012February 25, 2012 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chefs, Cooking, English Cooking, French Cooking, Lit & Food1 Minute Read

Lemons – Tiny Cathedrals of Gold

Lemons – Tiny Cathedrals of Gold

Posted on April 6, 2011April 6, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, Italian Cooking, Italy, Lemons, Lent, Lit & Food, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized1 Minute Read

Seeking Honey, in the Bee-Loud Glade

Seeking Honey, in the Bee-Loud Glade

Posted on March 30, 2011March 29, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, Honey, Lit & Food, Photography2 Minutes Read

The Provençal Pantry in Poetry and Photos

The Provençal Pantry in Poetry and Photos

Posted on March 6, 2011March 6, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cooking, French Cooking, Lit & Food, Photography, Poetry1 Minute Read

Peregrinations and Pilgrimages: Egeria and the Flour Soup

Peregrinations and Pilgrimages: Egeria and the Flour Soup

Posted on September 30, 2010July 31, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Lit & Food, Middle East, Reference4 Minutes Read

Forgotten Recipes and Forgotten Cooks

Forgotten Recipes and Forgotten Cooks

Posted on August 17, 2010January 7, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, Latin America, Lit & Food, Photography, Poetry3 Minutes Read

Suffering — Sometimes it’s Just About Food and Sometimes Not

Suffering — Sometimes it’s Just About Food and Sometimes Not

Posted on June 4, 2010June 5, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food writing, Lit & Food4 Minutes Read

In the Kitchen with Barbara Kingsolver: I

In the Kitchen with Barbara Kingsolver: I

Posted on December 8, 2009December 8, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Books, Cooking, Latin America, Lit & Food, Mexico, United States1 Minute Read

To the Cooks, Prosit! Part II

To the Cooks, Prosit! Part II

Posted on November 25, 2009November 24, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cooking, Europe, Lit & Food, Thanksgiving1 Minute Read

To the Cooks, Prosit! Part I

To the Cooks, Prosit! Part I

Posted on November 23, 2009November 22, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cooking, Europe, Lit & Food, Thanksgiving1 Minute Read

Why Cookbooks?

Why Cookbooks?

Posted on November 21, 2009November 21, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Critic's Corner, Lit & Food1 Minute Read

Nightly She Sings on Yon Pomegranate-Tree

Nightly She Sings on Yon Pomegranate-Tree

Posted on November 3, 2009November 3, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Lit & Food2 Minutes Read

La Toussaint:* The Saints and Souls Who Preserve Us

La Toussaint:* The Saints and Souls Who Preserve Us

Posted on November 2, 2009November 2, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Food writing, French Cooking, Lit & Food3 Minutes Read

Half-Baked Nuts and Gooseberry Fools: Food Similes and Metaphors

Half-Baked Nuts and Gooseberry Fools: Food Similes and Metaphors

Posted on September 3, 2009September 3, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food writing, Lit & Food1 Minute Read

“Curry & Rice” on Forty Plates: The British Raj Encore

“Curry & Rice” on Forty Plates: The British Raj Encore

Posted on August 28, 2009November 23, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, India, Lit & Food2 Minutes Read

Rediscovering Rabelais

Rediscovering Rabelais

Posted on June 19, 2009June 20, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn France, French Cooking, Lit & Food4 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

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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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