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More than Pineapples: Market Day in Haiti

More than Pineapples: Market Day in Haiti

Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Haiti, Pineapple7 Minutes Read

Hospitality, a Forgotten Concept in Today’s World: A Tale of Ice Cubes

Hospitality, a Forgotten Concept in Today’s World: A Tale of Ice Cubes

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food writing, Haiti3 Minutes Read

Memories of Chaos: Reflecting on Dictatorship

Memories of Chaos: Reflecting on Dictatorship

Posted on January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Haiti3 Minutes Read

Haiti is NOT a Shithole, Mr. Trump

Haiti is NOT a Shithole, Mr. Trump

Posted on January 12, 2018January 12, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Haiti2 Minutes Read

Remembering Haiti Post-Carnival (Kanaval)

Remembering Haiti Post-Carnival (Kanaval)

Posted on March 14, 2011August 7, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Carnevale, France, French Cooking, Haiti2 Minutes Read

Idylls of Cuisine, #47

Idylls of Cuisine, #47

Posted on January 24, 2010January 22, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, Haiti, Photography1 Minute Read

Eat a Meal of Solidarity: Haiti’s Sos Pwa Rouj

Eat a Meal of Solidarity: Haiti’s Sos Pwa Rouj

Posted on January 17, 2010January 17, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beans, Cooking, Haiti, Recipes1 Minute Read

In Haiti, The Four Horsemen Strike Again

In Haiti, The Four Horsemen Strike Again

Posted on January 13, 2010January 13, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food News, Haiti1 Minute Read

Idylls of Cuisine #31

Idylls of Cuisine #31

Posted on September 20, 2009September 20, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Haiti, Photography1 Minute Read

“CONCH AIN’T GOT NO BONES”

“CONCH AIN’T GOT NO BONES”

Posted on January 22, 2009January 23, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Haiti, Latin America, Recipes, Shellfish, Soup3 Minutes Read

Category: Haiti

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!

Near Meknes, Morocco

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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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