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Black is the Colour of My … Food

Black is the Colour of My … Food

Posted on February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cooking, Food Science, Photography, Poetry3 Minutes Read

Cookbooks for the Season: Preserving is the Hot Topic These Days

Cookbooks for the Season: Preserving is the Hot Topic These Days

Posted on December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Food Science, Home Economics, Techniques3 Minutes Read

Waiting for Pears

Waiting for Pears

Posted on August 30, 2012July 19, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Food Science, France, French Cooking, Local foods, Pears, Photography2 Minutes Read

Starvation and Hunger, Humankind’s Constant Companions: A Pre-Thanksgiving Meditation

Starvation and Hunger, Humankind’s Constant Companions: A Pre-Thanksgiving Meditation

Posted on November 10, 2009November 10, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food Science, Methods, Nutrition5 Minutes Read

Reveling in Books: Catching Fire

Reveling in Books: Catching Fire

Posted on June 22, 2009June 22, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Food Science, Homo Erectus, Homo Habilis, Meat3 Minutes Read

Michael Ruhlman’s “Ratio”

Michael Ruhlman’s “Ratio”

Posted on April 13, 2009April 13, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Food Science, French Cooking2 Minutes Read

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Due Out Fall 2021

Now available! Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2021

Winner of Best in the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards and Praised by Publishers Weekly as “a remarkable book.”

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My Book about Africa, Now Available!

A Story of Witchcraft, Healing, & Love

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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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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