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Smörgåsbord: Perfect for the 2020 Holiday Season

Smörgåsbord: Perfect for the 2020 Holiday Season

Posted on December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Christmas, Cooking, Food writing, Norway, Scandinavian Cooking2 Minutes Read

Thanksgiving, in the Time of COVID-19

Thanksgiving, in the Time of COVID-19

Posted on November 18, 2020December 17, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cranberries, Recipes, Thanksgiving, United States3 Minutes Read

A Kitchen in Exile

A Kitchen in Exile

Posted on November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Books, Mexican Cooking, Mexico, Pies--Sweet, Pumpkin4 Minutes Read

Yes, it’s Early, But …

Yes, it’s Early, But …

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Food writing1 Minute Read

A Trip to the Bathroom, Being a Reflection on the Passing and the Passion (and the red-walled toilette) of M. F. K. Fisher

A Trip to the Bathroom, Being a Reflection on the Passing and the Passion (and the red-walled toilette) of M. F. K. Fisher

Posted on October 21, 2020October 23, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Critic's Corner, Food writing, Writing7 Minutes Read

Do You Smell Anything Cooking?

Do You Smell Anything Cooking?

Posted on October 4, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, United States2 Minutes Read

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

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

Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Food writing, Photography, Scandinavian Cooking, United States, Wisconsin1 Minute Read

“Meatballs & Lefse”: A Tiny Preview of Upcoming Book

“Meatballs & Lefse”: A Tiny Preview of Upcoming Book

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking1 Minute Read

Dreams of Flying, or, Armchair Traveling Through Books, LED Screens, and Memories

Dreams of Flying, or, Armchair Traveling Through Books, LED Screens, and Memories

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Films, Latin America, Writing3 Minutes Read

Arizona Highways Heritage Cookbook: Riding through History via the Mouth and the Stomach

Arizona Highways Heritage Cookbook: Riding through History via the Mouth and the Stomach

Posted on July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Arizona, Cattle, Cookbooks, Gardens, Local foods, Southwest American, Spanish cooking4 Minutes Read

Dreaming of the Sonoran Desert: Metaphors for Escape in the Time of COVID-19), Part 1

Dreaming of the Sonoran Desert: Metaphors for Escape in the Time of COVID-19), Part 1

Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Arizona, Cookbooks, Mexico, Writing3 Minutes Read

Baking Bread, Breaking Bread: A Short Film by Zev Robinson, Filmmaker

Baking Bread, Breaking Bread: A Short Film by Zev Robinson, Filmmaker

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, Photography, Scotland, Video2 Minutes Read

Traveling Back in Time: Memories of Wet Markets – COVID-19 Isolation, Day 52

Traveling Back in Time: Memories of Wet Markets – COVID-19 Isolation, Day 52

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asian Cooking, Cookbooks, Indonesia, Thailand, Writing2 Minutes Read

The Cook’s Dilemma: How to Cook During a State of Siege, via Your Pantry

The Cook’s Dilemma: How to Cook During a State of Siege, via Your Pantry

Posted on March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Food writing, Methods, United States, Writing4 Minutes Read

In a State of Siege: Coronavirua (COVID-19) – Day 5

In a State of Siege: Coronavirua (COVID-19) – Day 5

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Cooking4 Minutes Read

In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Days 3 & 4

In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Days 3 & 4

Posted on March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chicken, Cookbooks, Cooking, Italian Cooking4 Minutes Read

Lessons from Medieval England: The Relationship Between the Sick Room and the Kitchen

Lessons from Medieval England: The Relationship Between the Sick Room and the Kitchen

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, England, English Cooking, Middle Ages, Nutrition7 Minutes Read

Memories and Memory and Memoir

Memories and Memory and Memoir

Posted on February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Food writing, Writing3 Minutes Read

Maryse Condé’s “Of Morsels and Marvels”: A New Book by a Not-to-be-Missed Writer of Style and Substance

Maryse Condé’s “Of Morsels and Marvels”: A New Book by a Not-to-be-Missed Writer of Style and Substance

Posted on February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Book Reviews, Cookbooks, France, French Cooking2 Minutes Read

The Mouthwatering and Mind-bending Experience of Cooking from Yotam Ottolenghi’s “Jerusalem”

The Mouthwatering and Mind-bending Experience of Cooking from Yotam Ottolenghi’s “Jerusalem”

Posted on January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Cooking, Middle Eastern Cooking4 Minutes Read

The Longest Night: Ramblings on the Darker Side of the Christmas Season

The Longest Night: Ramblings on the Darker Side of the Christmas Season

Posted on December 21, 2019December 31, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Christmas, Cookbooks, Cooking3 Minutes Read

Joy to the World: A Look at the 9th Edition of “Joy of Cooking”

Joy to the World: A Look at the 9th Edition of “Joy of Cooking”

Posted on December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Book Reviews, Books, Cookbooks, Photography, Reference6 Minutes Read

The Armchair Traveler’s Spain: Books and Stories Guaranteed to Saturate Your Soul with Duende

The Armchair Traveler’s Spain: Books and Stories Guaranteed to Saturate Your Soul with Duende

Posted on October 16, 2019October 18, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bibliographies, Books, Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference, Spanish cooking4 Minutes Read

Don Quixote and Me

Don Quixote and Me

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Spanish cooking3 Minutes Read

Homage to La Cocina Española? Where are the Books?

Homage to La Cocina Española? Where are the Books?

Posted on October 2, 2019October 3, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Food writing, Spain, Spanish cooking4 Minutes Read

The Rice in Spain, Not So Easy to Explain

The Rice in Spain, Not So Easy to Explain

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Cookbooks, Rice, Spain, Spanish cooking6 Minutes Read

Cooking Like a Catalan, No Matter Where You Are

Cooking Like a Catalan, No Matter Where You Are

Posted on September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Photography, Spanish cooking3 Minutes Read

For Me, All Roads Lead to Spain

For Me, All Roads Lead to Spain

Posted on August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Photography, Reference, Spain, Spanish cooking5 Minutes Read

11 Years of Writing About Food and Culinary History – A Blog Anniversary!!!

11 Years of Writing About Food and Culinary History – A Blog Anniversary!!!

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Cookbooks, Cooking, Photography, Reference5 Minutes Read

Cooking Cuban During El Período Especial Estadounidense

Cooking Cuban During El Período Especial Estadounidense

Posted on July 20, 2019July 20, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Cuban cooking, Cuban food, Eggs, Potatoes, Reference1 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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