Real Mayonnaise, Real Food? Or Just Sanctimonious Snobbery?

Posted on October 19, 2014October 19, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Critic's Corner, Local foods, Locavores, Nutrition6 Minutes Read

I was in Prison and You Did Not Feed Me

Posted on May 19, 2010May 19, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Cooking, Nutrition, Philippines4 Minutes Read

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

Celiac Disease — an Illness of Civilization?

Posted on July 11, 2009July 2, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Nutrition1 Minute Read

Cooking and Eating: Some Harsh Truths

Posted on March 20, 2009March 20, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Home Economics, Nutrition1 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.”

My 1st Book – Mushroom: A Global History

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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