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Nika Standen Hazelton: Remembering a Food Writer Chronicling a Lost World

Nika Standen Hazelton: Remembering a Food Writer Chronicling a Lost World

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, English Cooking, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Germany, Italian Cooking, Italy, Scandinavian Cooking4 Minutes Read

Remembering Mireille Johnston: Memories of a French Food Writer on a Fall Day

Remembering Mireille Johnston: Memories of a French Food Writer on a Fall Day

Posted on March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, French Cooking3 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

Keep on Feasting! For Lovers of “Game of Thrones”

Keep on Feasting! For Lovers of “Game of Thrones”

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cookbooks, Drawings, English Cooking, Europe, French Cooking, Reference3 Minutes Read

Culinary Manuscripts, or, Deciphering the Code

Culinary Manuscripts, or, Deciphering the Code

Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, English Cooking, Europe, French Cooking, Reference1 Minute Read

Pignagoscé sur chapons (Pignagoscé on Capons), Plus Some Words on Paleography

Pignagoscé sur chapons (Pignagoscé on Capons), Plus Some Words on Paleography

Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Chicken, Cookbooks, Drawings, France, French Cooking, Recipes, Reference7 Minutes Read

Before There was Martha S., There was Martha B.*

Before There was Martha S., There was Martha B.*

Posted on April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cookbooks, Drawings, England, English Cooking, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Methods7 Minutes Read

Speaking of France …

Speaking of France …

Posted on February 23, 2019February 23, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Europe, France, French Cooking, Photography2 Minutes Read

Florida Oranges, and Other White House Desserts

Florida Oranges, and Other White House Desserts

Posted on August 28, 2017August 29, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Chefs, Cookbooks, Cooking, Desserts, Florida, French Cooking, White House4 Minutes Read

9 Years of Writing about History … A Celebration!

9 Years of Writing about History … A Celebration!

Posted on July 27, 2017July 27, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn African Cooking, American Cooking, Cookbooks, England, English Cooking, Florida, France, French Cooking, Photography, Southern cooking, Southern Food, Spain, Spanish cooking5 Minutes Read

Seeking Food at the Crossroads of History

Seeking Food at the Crossroads of History

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, Europe, France, French Cooking, Mexico, Photography2 Minutes Read

Muscling in on Mussels

Muscling in on Mussels

Posted on October 27, 2016October 26, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn French Cooking, Mussels, Recipes5 Minutes Read

The Power and the Glories of Eating Alone

The Power and the Glories of Eating Alone

Posted on April 8, 2016July 14, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chefs, Fish, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Menus, Spain, Spanish cooking, Wine6 Minutes Read

From Velouté to Casserole: A Question of Green Beans, Amandine, and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup

From Velouté to Casserole: A Question of Green Beans, Amandine, and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup

Posted on November 27, 2015December 4, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Beans, Cooking, French Cooking, Mushrooms, Recipes, Soup4 Minutes 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

Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part III

Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part III

Posted on June 6, 2015April 6, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, African Cooking, Chefs, Cooking, French Cooking2 Minutes Read

Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part I

Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part I

Posted on January 26, 2015February 5, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, African Cooking, France, French Cooking2 Minutes Read

December 12: The Virgin of Guadalupe

December 12: The Virgin of Guadalupe

Posted on December 12, 2014December 6, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn France, French Cooking, Mexico3 Minutes Read

High Society Dinners: Dining in Tsarist Russia, a Model of Culinary History Methodology and Translation

High Society Dinners: Dining in Tsarist Russia, a Model of Culinary History Methodology and Translation

Posted on September 2, 2014September 3, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Cooking, French Cooking4 Minutes Read

Cutting Boards and French Comfort Food

Cutting Boards and French Comfort Food

Posted on August 21, 2014November 29, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Local foods, Photography, Potatoes5 Minutes Read

The Gift of French Cuisine

The Gift of French Cuisine

Posted on December 15, 2013January 3, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, France, French Cooking, Photography3 Minutes Read

Les Rêves de Julia (Julia’s Dreams): Meditations and Memories

Les Rêves de Julia (Julia’s Dreams): Meditations and Memories

Posted on December 7, 2013January 3, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Art, Beef, Chefs, Cookbooks, Cooking, France, French Cooking, Photography2 Minutes Read

Eating Dessert at the White House + A Word about Dallas, November 22, 1963*

Eating Dessert at the White House + A Word about Dallas, November 22, 1963*

Posted on November 21, 2013November 22, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Baking, Chefs, Cooking, England, English Cooking, Food Columns, France, French Cooking, Lemons, Local foods, Photography, United States, White House6 Minutes Read

Pears – an Exploration of Ancient Food Preservation

Pears – an Exploration of Ancient Food Preservation

Posted on November 15, 2013November 15, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, China, France, French Cooking, Local foods, Paintings, Pears, Photography3 Minutes Read

The Ancient Story Behind Veterans’/Armistice Day, or, The Significance of St. Martin of Tours

The Ancient Story Behind Veterans’/Armistice Day, or, The Significance of St. Martin of Tours

Posted on November 11, 2013November 11, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cooking, English Cooking, French Cooking, Middle Ages, Photography, United States3 Minutes Read

Remembering Julia Child, “Our Lady of the Ladle”*: A Reprint and More

Remembering Julia Child, “Our Lady of the Ladle”*: A Reprint and More

Posted on August 12, 2013August 12, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, France, French Cooking3 Minutes Read

The Little Fish with Big Taste: The Much-Maligned Anchovy and its Cousins

The Little Fish with Big Taste: The Much-Maligned Anchovy and its Cousins

Posted on June 24, 2013June 24, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, African Cooking, Fish, France, French Cooking, Photography3 Minutes Read

In My Grandfather’s Garden, or, a Long Apothegm on Apricots

In My Grandfather’s Garden, or, a Long Apothegm on Apricots

Posted on June 12, 2013June 12, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Apricots, Asia, China, France, French Cooking, Local foods, Photography, Pies--Sweet4 Minutes Read

The Zen of Artichokes

The Zen of Artichokes

Posted on October 3, 2012October 3, 2012 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Cooking, France, French Cooking, Italian Cooking, Italy, Local foods, Photography2 Minutes 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
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  • * Culinary Jottings for Madras, by Col. Kenney-Henry
  • * Dictionary of Middle-English Cookery Terms
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  • * 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
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  • * 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)
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