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Fishing for Meaning: Fate, Destiny, and Heimarmene

Fishing for Meaning: Fate, Destiny, and Heimarmene

Posted on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Spain, Writing2 Minutes Read

Doors Open, Doors Close: Life’s Little Lessons

Doors Open, Doors Close: Life’s Little Lessons

Posted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Spain3 Minutes Read

Disaster, or How to Ruin a Vacation with One Tiny Misstep

Disaster, or How to Ruin a Vacation with One Tiny Misstep

Posted on November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Spain1 Minute 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

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

“To Fry Tomatoes”: Sarah Rutledge Mixes Up a Few New World Foods

“To Fry Tomatoes”: Sarah Rutledge Mixes Up a Few New World Foods

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, England, Photography, Spain, Spanish cooking, Tomatoes1 Minute 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

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme … and Lavender

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme … and Lavender

Posted on December 12, 2016December 12, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Arab cooking, Cookbooks, England, Europe, Middle Ages, Middle East, Monasteries, Spain5 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

Cookbooks Tell the Story of Our Lives: Remembering Penelope Casas and The Foods and Wines of Spain

Cookbooks Tell the Story of Our Lives: Remembering Penelope Casas and The Foods and Wines of Spain

Posted on August 20, 2013April 8, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Arab cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Local foods, Photography, Spain2 Minutes Read

The Curse of Corn: Poverty and Politics and Pellagra

The Curse of Corn: Poverty and Politics and Pellagra

Posted on July 24, 2012January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Corn, Hunger, Italy, Local foods, Paintings, Southern Food, Spain3 Minutes Read

Eating Cat Meat: A Taboo?

Eating Cat Meat: A Taboo?

Posted on June 7, 2010June 8, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, China, Cooking, Methods, Spain5 Minutes Read

Sugar, Saffron, Spices — The Arab Influence on Spanish Cuisine, a Brief Meditation

Sugar, Saffron, Spices — The Arab Influence on Spanish Cuisine, a Brief Meditation

Posted on June 2, 2010February 10, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Arab cooking, Beef, Cookbooks, Latin America, Middle Ages, Morocco, Spain, Spanish cooking5 Minutes Read

The Herbs in Spain Grow Mainly on the Plain

The Herbs in Spain Grow Mainly on the Plain

Posted on May 21, 2010May 22, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Spain3 Minutes Read

The Chicken or the Egg? 1. The Egg and Art*

The Chicken or the Egg? 1. The Egg and Art*

Posted on October 12, 2009October 12, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cookbooks, Eggs, Menus, Spain3 Minutes Read

The Nose Knows

The Nose Knows

Posted on July 4, 2009July 4, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Evolution, Spain2 Minutes Read

Luis Meléndez, Mi Amor

Luis Meléndez, Mi Amor

Posted on May 16, 2009May 16, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Spain1 Minute Read

The Book of Sent Sovi­: Medieval Recipes from Catalonia (Textos B)

The Book of Sent Sovi­: Medieval Recipes from Catalonia (Textos B)

Posted on March 18, 2009March 18, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Spain1 Minute Read

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My 3rd Book – A Story of Witchcraft, Healing, & Love

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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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