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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

Picturing the Last Weekend of Fall

Picturing the Last Weekend of Fall

Posted on October 26, 2013October 26, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Halloween, Mushrooms, Photography, Soup, Virginia1 Minute Read

Idylls of Cuisine, #36

Idylls of Cuisine, #36

Posted on November 1, 2009October 27, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Halloween, Photography1 Minute Read

Halloween: Art

Halloween: Art

Posted on October 31, 2009October 27, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Halloween, Mexico1 Minute Read

Saints, Souls, and Haints: More Soul Cakes

Saints, Souls, and Haints: More Soul Cakes

Posted on October 30, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Europe, Germany, Halloween2 Minutes Read

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Soul Cakes

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Soul Cakes

Posted on October 29, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Europe, Halloween, India2 Minutes Read

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Cider and Curds

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Cider and Curds

Posted on October 28, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn France, French Cooking, Halloween2 Minutes Read

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Honey Cakes

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Honey Cakes

Posted on October 27, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Halloween, Italian Cooking, Italy2 Minutes Read

Idylls of Cuisine, #35

Idylls of Cuisine, #35

Posted on October 25, 2009October 27, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Halloween, Mexico1 Minute Read

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Ghoulish Goodies

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Ghoulish Goodies

Posted on October 24, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Food News, Halloween1 Minute Read

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Still Nuts

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Still Nuts

Posted on October 23, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn England, Halloween1 Minute 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: Apples

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Apples

Posted on October 21, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Apples, England, Halloween2 Minutes 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

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Eggs

Saints, Souls, and Haints: Eggs

Posted on October 19, 2009October 21, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Eggs, Halloween1 Minute Read

Halloween: Cake and Candles

Halloween: Cake and Candles

Posted on October 3, 2009October 15, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cakes, Halloween1 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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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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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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