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Scenes from Asia

Scenes from Asia

Posted on September 17, 2014September 17, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asia, Asian Cooking1 Minute Read

The Wonder Spice: A Review of Turmeric, a Cookbook by Colleen Taylor Sen and Helen Saberi

The Wonder Spice: A Review of Turmeric, a Cookbook by Colleen Taylor Sen and Helen Saberi

Posted on March 11, 2014March 11, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Afghanistan, Asian Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, India, Photography4 Minutes Read

Julie Sahni -Talk About Great Indian Food!

Julie Sahni -Talk About Great Indian Food!

Posted on August 6, 2013August 7, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asian Cooking, Coconuts, Cookbooks, India, Photography, Rice1 Minute Read

Journeys versus Destinations: Homesick for My Food

Journeys versus Destinations: Homesick for My Food

Posted on July 23, 2013July 23, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Asia, Asian Cooking, Coconuts, Cooking, Food writing, Hunger, Indonesia, Photography3 Minutes Read

To India, via Paris’s Le Passage Brady

To India, via Paris’s Le Passage Brady

Posted on January 24, 2011January 24, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asian Cooking, Chefs, France, French Cooking, India, Spices3 Minutes Read

The Things They Carried*: Brief Glimpses of French Food in Vietnam

The Things They Carried*: Brief Glimpses of French Food in Vietnam

Posted on January 3, 2011January 3, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asian Cooking, France, French Cooking3 Minutes Read

Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 1

Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 1

Posted on March 11, 2010March 11, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asia, Asian Cooking, Cooking, Lent1 Minute Read

The Chinese in the West: How Railroad Coolies Ate

The Chinese in the West: How Railroad Coolies Ate

Posted on September 21, 2009November 23, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asian Cooking, China, Oral History4 Minutes Read

Fish Stomachs?????

Fish Stomachs?????

Posted on September 10, 2009September 10, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Asia, Asian Cooking, Cookbooks, English Cooking, Fish3 Minutes Read

Chinese New Year: What are You?

Chinese New Year: What are You?

Posted on January 26, 2009January 26, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asian Cooking1 Minute Read

LEAFING OUT: Cooking with Asian Leaves

LEAFING OUT: Cooking with Asian Leaves

Posted on October 1, 2008October 1, 2008 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asian Cooking, Cookbooks, Critic's Corner1 Minute Read

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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!

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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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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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