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Cooks, Kitchens, and Places: Josephine’s Tale

Cooks, Kitchens, and Places: Josephine’s Tale

Posted on August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, England, English Cooking, Europe, Germany, Ireland, Photography2 Minutes Read

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

News and Views

News and Views

Posted on April 25, 2011April 25, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn England, France, French Cooking, Ireland1 Minute Read

Cookbooks on the Hot Seat

Cookbooks on the Hot Seat

Posted on May 4, 2010May 4, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Ireland, Irish Cooking1 Minute Read

Traditional, “Authentic” St. Patrick’s Day Food

Traditional, “Authentic” St. Patrick’s Day Food

Posted on March 17, 2010March 21, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bread, Cooking, Holidays, Ireland, Irish Cooking3 Minutes Read

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Nuts

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Nuts

Posted on October 22, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn England, Halloween, Ireland, Nuts, Scotland1 Minute Read

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Cabbages and Rings

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Cabbages and Rings

Posted on October 20, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cabbage, England, Halloween, Ireland, Irish Cooking1 Minute Read

Irish Food History

Irish Food History

Posted on March 17, 2009March 16, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Festivals, Ireland, Irish Cooking2 Minutes 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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Tostones! First learned about them in Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico. Then cooked them in Honduras while associated with United Brands in La Lima.
Cuban picadillo with fried potatoes and an egg, a caballo.
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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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