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Being Ernest: On ” Writing One True Sentence”

Being Ernest: On ” Writing One True Sentence”

Posted on July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Editorials, Food writing, Methods, Photography1 Minute Read

Surviving the Whiplashes of History and American Gun-Culture Violence

Surviving the Whiplashes of History and American Gun-Culture Violence

Posted on October 2, 2017October 11, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Editorials, Photography, Writing2 Minutes Read

Just a Few Pictures, and a Few Words

Just a Few Pictures, and a Few Words

Posted on June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Editorials, Florida, Food writing, Photography1 Minute Read

Kidnapped!* A Case of Plagiarism

Kidnapped!* A Case of Plagiarism

Posted on May 24, 2015May 24, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Editorials2 Minutes Read

Food, Photography of

Food, Photography of

Posted on February 15, 2015February 15, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cooking, Editorials, Food Columns, Food writing, Paintings, Photography4 Minutes Read

Remembering the Magic and Wishing for Peace on Earth

Remembering the Magic and Wishing for Peace on Earth

Posted on December 16, 2012December 16, 2012 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Christmas, Editorials, Festivals, Photography2 Minutes Read

The Ancient Sin of Gluttony: What’s Really Behind the Shunning of Paula Deen

The Ancient Sin of Gluttony: What’s Really Behind the Shunning of Paula Deen

Posted on January 26, 2012July 12, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cooking, Critic's Corner, Editorials, Food News, Food writing, France, French Cooking, United States4 Minutes Read

Pass the Nostalgia, and Nix the Organics

Pass the Nostalgia, and Nix the Organics

Posted on April 14, 2010April 14, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Critic's Corner, Editorials, Food writing, Paintings4 Minutes Read

Scaling Back, Nothing Fishy About It!

Scaling Back, Nothing Fishy About It!

Posted on November 17, 2009November 17, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Editorials, Food News1 Minute Read

Slapdown Corner: For the Love of Food!

Slapdown Corner: For the Love of Food!

Posted on July 22, 2009July 22, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Editorials, Mexico2 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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  • * 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)
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