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Cooking Cuban During El Período Especial Estadounidense

Cooking Cuban During El Período Especial Estadounidense

Posted on July 20, 2019July 20, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Cuban cooking, Cuban food, Eggs, Potatoes, Reference1 Minute Read

What’s That You Say??? Medieval Culinary Terminology Unmasked*

What’s That You Say??? Medieval Culinary Terminology Unmasked*

Posted on May 23, 2019May 24, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Bibliographies, Cookbooks, England, English Cooking, Reference4 Minutes Read

Day 6: Beef – Celebrate American Food History

Day 6: Beef – Celebrate American Food History

Posted on July 25, 2016July 27, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Beef, Cattle, Cookbooks, Cooking, Southern Food4 Minutes Read

From Mother Russia with Love: Meaty Mushrooms and Relentless Lent

From Mother Russia with Love: Meaty Mushrooms and Relentless Lent

Posted on March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Cookbooks, Cooking, Lent, Mushrooms, Russia3 Minutes Read

Les Rêves de Julia (Julia’s Dreams): Meditations and Memories

Les Rêves de Julia (Julia’s Dreams): Meditations and Memories

Posted on December 7, 2013January 3, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Art, Beef, Chefs, Cookbooks, Cooking, France, French Cooking, Photography2 Minutes Read

Keep Calm and Carry On: Cows as Zen Masters

Keep Calm and Carry On: Cows as Zen Masters

Posted on June 2, 2013June 2, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Cattle, India, Milk, Photography, Spinach, Vietnam2 Minutes Read

The Meat of the Matter: A Question of Sacred Reverence

The Meat of the Matter: A Question of Sacred Reverence

Posted on October 26, 2012October 26, 2012 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Agriculture, Beef, Cattle, Cooking, Festivals, Hunger, Lent, Local foods, Photography3 Minutes Read

Brassai’s Paris, a View Through the Tunnel of Time

Brassai’s Paris, a View Through the Tunnel of Time

Posted on January 8, 2011January 8, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, France, French Cooking, Photography, Potatoes2 Minutes Read

Hamburger Heaven, or the Global Burger: A Medley of Recipes

Hamburger Heaven, or the Global Burger: A Medley of Recipes

Posted on August 9, 2010August 10, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Beef, Recipes4 Minutes Read

Saffron: The Gold We Eat

Saffron: The Gold We Eat

Posted on July 29, 2010July 30, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Recipes, Rice, Spices4 Minutes Read

Still Mi Amore — Wild Abandonment Among the Tomatoes and Zucchini

Still Mi Amore — Wild Abandonment Among the Tomatoes and Zucchini

Posted on June 14, 2010June 15, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Cookbooks, Cooking, Italian Cooking3 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

Idylls of Cuisine, #60

Idylls of Cuisine, #60

Posted on April 25, 2010April 24, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Cooking, Italian Cooking, Pasta, Photography1 Minute Read

From Mother Russia with Love: Meaty Mushrooms and Relentless Lent

From Mother Russia with Love: Meaty Mushrooms and Relentless Lent

Posted on March 25, 2010March 25, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Cookbooks, Cooking, Lent, Mushrooms, Russia3 Minutes Read

De-Constructing Hawaii’s Loco Moco

De-Constructing Hawaii’s Loco Moco

Posted on January 25, 2010February 6, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Hawaii, Home Economics, Ingredients, Methods2 Minutes Read

Reveling in Books: Fresh, Bones, Fat, and Meat

Reveling in Books: Fresh, Bones, Fat, and Meat

Posted on June 10, 2009June 10, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Beef, Book Reviews, Cookbooks2 Minutes Read

Cape Malay Cooking

Cape Malay Cooking

Posted on April 18, 2009April 17, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Beef, Cape Malay1 Minute Read

A Dish (or Two) for Children in British Colonial Africa

A Dish (or Two) for Children in British Colonial Africa

Posted on February 20, 2009November 29, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Beef, Cookbooks, English Cooking, Potatoes, Recipes3 Minutes Read

Mrs. Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book

Mrs. Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book

Posted on December 6, 2008November 29, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Book Reviews, English Cooking, Recipes2 Minutes Read

Election-Day Menu: Food from Our Greatest Presidents

Election-Day Menu: Food from Our Greatest Presidents

Posted on November 3, 2008November 3, 2008 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Beans, Beef, Desserts, Pork, Recipes, Soup4 Minutes Read

BARACK OBAMA’S CHILI AND JOHN McCAIN’S RIBS

BARACK OBAMA’S CHILI AND JOHN McCAIN’S RIBS

Posted on October 25, 2008October 25, 2008 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beans, Beef, Pork, Recipes1 Minute Read

GOULASH, BY GOSH!

GOULASH, BY GOSH!

Posted on October 23, 2008August 10, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Hungary, Recipes6 Minutes Read

CHILI DAYS ARE A’COMIN’: AN ODE, OF A SORTS

CHILI DAYS ARE A’COMIN’: AN ODE, OF A SORTS

Posted on September 10, 2008September 8, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beans, Beef, Recipes5 Minutes Read

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