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Fishing for Meaning: Fate, Destiny, and Heimarmene

Fishing for Meaning: Fate, Destiny, and Heimarmene

Posted on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Spain, Writing2 Minutes Read

Mullets, Jumping into the Stream of Life

Mullets, Jumping into the Stream of Life

Posted on December 2, 2017December 3, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Florida, Writing2 Minutes Read

The Food of Florida: A Grand and Ongoing Experiment

The Food of Florida: A Grand and Ongoing Experiment

Posted on April 21, 2017April 21, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Fish, Florida, Florida, Local foods, Photography, Southern cooking3 Minutes Read

The Power and the Glories of Eating Alone

The Power and the Glories of Eating Alone

Posted on April 8, 2016July 14, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chefs, Fish, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Menus, Spain, Spanish cooking, Wine6 Minutes Read

From Mother Russia with Love: A Fish in Every Pie

From Mother Russia with Love: A Fish in Every Pie

Posted on March 23, 2015February 28, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Menus, Pies--Savory, Russia3 Minutes Read

Fish, a Lesson about the Transience of Life

Fish, a Lesson about the Transience of Life

Posted on October 19, 2013October 20, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Cooking, Fish, Photography1 Minute Read

Exploring the Delicacies of Indonesia, in the Shadows of the Volcanoes

Exploring the Delicacies of Indonesia, in the Shadows of the Volcanoes

Posted on September 29, 2013July 3, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Food writing, Indonesia, Photography6 Minutes Read

Journeys versus Destinations: Initial Comments on a Sojourn in Indonesia

Journeys versus Destinations: Initial Comments on a Sojourn in Indonesia

Posted on July 16, 2013July 16, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asia, Fish, Indonesia, Local foods, Photography2 Minutes Read

The Little Fish with Big Taste: The Much-Maligned Anchovy and its Cousins

The Little Fish with Big Taste: The Much-Maligned Anchovy and its Cousins

Posted on June 24, 2013June 24, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, African Cooking, Fish, France, French Cooking, Photography3 Minutes Read

An Ancient Mediterranean Taste: France’s Boutargue

An Ancient Mediterranean Taste: France’s Boutargue

Posted on June 20, 2011September 21, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Arab cooking, Egypt, Fish, France, French Cooking4 Minutes Read

The Fish of France

The Fish of France

Posted on May 8, 2011December 13, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, France, French Cooking, Photography1 Minute Read

Cooking with Saint-Pierre (John Dory)

Cooking with Saint-Pierre (John Dory)

Posted on February 23, 2011February 23, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Fish, France, French Cooking, Morocco, Recipes5 Minutes Read

Scenes from La France Profonde

Scenes from La France Profonde

Posted on February 18, 2011February 18, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, France, French Cooking, Photography, Wine1 Minute Read

Idylls of Cuisine, #81

Idylls of Cuisine, #81

Posted on September 26, 2010September 19, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, Europe, Fish, France, French Cooking, Photography1 Minute Read

From Mother Russia with Love: A Fish in Every Pie

From Mother Russia with Love: A Fish in Every Pie

Posted on March 26, 2010March 26, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Menus, Pies--Savory, Russia3 Minutes Read

Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 2

Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 2

Posted on March 19, 2010March 19, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Asia, Fish, Korea, Lent, Philippines, Thailand1 Minute Read

Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Africa

Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Africa

Posted on March 8, 2010March 8, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Cooking, Fish, Lent1 Minute Read

Mrs. Sherman G. Bonney on Lent and Fish

Mrs. Sherman G. Bonney on Lent and Fish

Posted on March 5, 2010March 4, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Lent1 Minute Read

A Bloody Fish Story

A Bloody Fish Story

Posted on March 2, 2010September 8, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, England, English Cooking, Fish, Lent2 Minutes Read

Tuna: More Than Just a Canned Wonder

Tuna: More Than Just a Canned Wonder

Posted on January 22, 2010January 22, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn African Cooking, Fish, Recipes5 Minutes Read

Holy Mackerel!

Holy Mackerel!

Posted on January 20, 2010January 13, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Food Columns, Recipes6 Minutes Read

Being Catty: Hey, Did You Know That Catfish Tastes OK?

Being Catty: Hey, Did You Know That Catfish Tastes OK?

Posted on January 13, 2010January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Food Columns, Recipes, Southern Food3 Minutes Read

Idylls of Cuisine #30

Idylls of Cuisine #30

Posted on September 13, 2009September 10, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Europe, Fish, Photography1 Minute Read

Can You Stomach It?

Can You Stomach It?

Posted on September 11, 2009September 11, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Food writing2 Minutes Read

Fish Stomachs?????

Fish Stomachs?????

Posted on September 10, 2009September 10, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Asia, Asian Cooking, Cookbooks, English Cooking, Fish3 Minutes Read

Fish in the Diets of Early Modern Humans in China 40,000 Years Ago — Direct Evidence

Fish in the Diets of Early Modern Humans in China 40,000 Years Ago — Direct Evidence

Posted on July 18, 2009July 14, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Archaeology, China, Evolution, Fish1 Minute Read

At the Tables of the Monks: The Fish-Cooks

At the Tables of the Monks: The Fish-Cooks

Posted on May 31, 2009November 29, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn English Cooking, Fish1 Minute Read

Fish: Garum and Beyond

Fish: Garum and Beyond

Posted on May 4, 2009May 3, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Fish, Italian Cooking, Italy, Recipes2 Minutes Read

Another Fish in the Sea: Mullet

Another Fish in the Sea: Mullet

Posted on January 30, 2009July 27, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Fish, Recipes, Southern Food8 Minutes Read

Heavenly Marriages

Heavenly Marriages

Posted on September 2, 2008September 4, 2008 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Fish, Recipes, Shellfish3 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
  • * 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)
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