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What’s A Turnip Got to Do with Halloween? Or Rutabagas, Beets, and Gourds, for That Matter?

What’s A Turnip Got to Do with Halloween? Or Rutabagas, Beets, and Gourds, for That Matter?

Posted on October 31, 2013October 31, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, England, Halloween, Ireland, Local foods, Photography, Pumpkin, Rutabaga, Uncategorized, Video1 Minute Read

The Historic Gastronomist

The Historic Gastronomist

Posted on November 14, 2009November 23, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Methods, Video1 Minute Read

Wrestling with Risotto

Wrestling with Risotto

Posted on August 15, 2009August 15, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Italian Cooking, Photography, Rice, Video1 Minute Read

Gardening at the White House

Gardening at the White House

Posted on April 4, 2009April 4, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Gardens, Video, White House1 Minute Read

Eggplant: Passage from India

Eggplant: Passage from India

Posted on April 3, 2009April 14, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Eggplant, India, Video2 Minutes Read

West African Origins of Southern Cooking

West African Origins of Southern Cooking

Posted on March 28, 2009April 2, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Southern Food, Video1 Minute Read

Cooking in Italy

Cooking in Italy

Posted on March 21, 2009March 8, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Italian Cooking, Italy, Photography, Restaurants, Video1 Minute Read

Baking in Colonial Virginia

Baking in Colonial Virginia

Posted on March 7, 2009January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, English Cooking, Video1 Minute Read

Cooking in 18th-Century Colonial Virginia (Video)

Cooking in 18th-Century Colonial Virginia (Video)

Posted on February 28, 2009January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Video1 Minute Read

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Newest Book, Now Available!

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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Couscous with kefta in tomato sauce.
Day 30 of social distancing. Dreaming and Wishing - gherkinstomatoes.com/2020/04/14/dreaming-and-wishing-being-in-a-state-of-siege-coronavirus-covid-19-day-30
Big batch of sofrito getting done.

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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