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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

Cutting Boards and French Comfort Food

Cutting Boards and French Comfort Food

Posted on August 21, 2014November 29, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Local foods, Photography, Potatoes5 Minutes Read

Scenes from La France Profonde

Scenes from La France Profonde

Posted on February 12, 2011February 4, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn France, French Cooking, Photography, Potatoes1 Minute 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

Will It Be French?

Will It Be French?

Posted on October 21, 2010October 24, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, France, French Cooking, Pork, Potatoes3 Minutes Read

Potato Blight

Potato Blight

Posted on July 10, 2009July 2, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Potatoes1 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

George Washington’s Family Cookbooks

George Washington’s Family Cookbooks

Posted on February 11, 2009January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Apples, Cookbooks, English Cooking, Potatoes, Recipes5 Minutes Read

All the Presidents’ Tables: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Luncheon, 1953

All the Presidents’ Tables: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Luncheon, 1953

Posted on January 15, 2009January 15, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Chocolate, Potatoes, Recipes, White House2 Minutes Read

ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO …

ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO …

Posted on September 18, 2008September 19, 2008 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food Columns, Latin America, Potatoes, Recipes7 Minutes Read

Category: Potatoes

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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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