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Solitude, or, Behind the Mask

Solitude, or, Behind the Mask

Posted on March 11, 2016March 11, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

What is Bliss to Me is Not Bliss to You …

What is Bliss to Me is Not Bliss to You …

Posted on March 10, 2016March 10, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Photography1 Minute Read

Water, Nature’s Driving Force

Water, Nature’s Driving Force

Posted on March 9, 2016March 10, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Streets

Streets

Posted on March 8, 2016March 10, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Home. What Signifies Home to You?

Home. What Signifies Home to You?

Posted on March 7, 2016March 10, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Photography1 Minute Read

Black is the Colour of My … Food

Black is the Colour of My … Food

Posted on February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cooking, Food Science, Photography, Poetry3 Minutes Read

Thinking About Rice in America: The Black Rice Theory – Mysteries, Myths, and Misconceptions

Thinking About Rice in America: The Black Rice Theory – Mysteries, Myths, and Misconceptions

Posted on January 18, 2016January 18, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, African Cooking, American Cooking, Asia, Colonization, Cookbooks, Cooking, Critic's Corner, England, English Cooking, Photography, Rice, Southern Food4 Minutes Read

Happy Christmas 2015!

Happy Christmas 2015!

Posted on December 25, 2015December 19, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Christmas, Cookbooks, Photography1 Minute Read

France and America: Why Paris Haunts Us So

France and America: Why Paris Haunts Us So

Posted on November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Chefs, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Photography2 Minutes Read

Paris, Mon Amour

Paris, Mon Amour

Posted on November 16, 2015November 16, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn France, French Cooking, Photography2 Minutes Read

Whereupon We Examine Kissing Cousins: Yorkshire Pudding and Spoonbread

Whereupon We Examine Kissing Cousins: Yorkshire Pudding and Spoonbread

Posted on October 19, 2015October 19, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, English Cooking, Photography5 Minutes Read

The Lone Tree: A View of My Father

The Lone Tree: A View of My Father

Posted on October 1, 2015October 10, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Cookbooks, Photography2 Minutes Read

Food, the Dog Days of Summer, and a Few Other Shocking Facts

Food, the Dog Days of Summer, and a Few Other Shocking Facts

Posted on August 16, 2015August 16, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, China, Cookbooks, Cooking, France, Photography4 Minutes Read

Hey, Wait a Minute: Glimpsing What’s Really Behind Words like “Ethnic”

Hey, Wait a Minute: Glimpsing What’s Really Behind Words like “Ethnic”

Posted on July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Asia, Cookbooks, Europe, Photography2 Minutes Read

Gleaning the Lessons of Wandering

Gleaning the Lessons of Wandering

Posted on July 17, 2015July 18, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Cookbooks, Cooking, Moroccan Cooking, Morocco, Photography2 Minutes Read

What is Home?

What is Home?

Posted on July 5, 2015July 5, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Holidays, Photography, United States1 Minute Read

Water – The Staff of Life

Water – The Staff of Life

Posted on June 10, 2015June 10, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

On the Street where I Live … or Close, Anyway

On the Street where I Live … or Close, Anyway

Posted on June 9, 2015June 21, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Home is the Place Where …

Home is the Place Where …

Posted on June 8, 2015June 21, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography, Poetry1 Minute Read

Science: The Missing Ingredient in the So-Called Art of Cooking

Science: The Missing Ingredient in the So-Called Art of Cooking

Posted on May 17, 2015May 17, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chefs, Cookbooks, Cooking, Food News, Food writing, Photography3 Minutes Read

Food, Photography of

Food, Photography of

Posted on February 15, 2015February 15, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cooking, Editorials, Food Columns, Food writing, Paintings, Photography4 Minutes Read

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Posted on December 24, 2014December 24, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Photography1 Minute Read

The Essence of Photography: Part I

The Essence of Photography: Part I

Posted on November 29, 2014November 29, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography2 Minutes Read

Triumph

Triumph

Posted on November 28, 2014November 28, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Double

Double

Posted on November 27, 2014November 27, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Edge

Edge

Posted on November 26, 2014November 26, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Glass

Glass

Posted on November 25, 2014November 25, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Treasure

Treasure

Posted on November 24, 2014November 24, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Landscape

Landscape

Posted on November 21, 2014November 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Swarm

Swarm

Posted on November 20, 2014November 20, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

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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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