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The South is Rising Again: The 2013 James Beard Nominees

The South is Rising Again: The 2013 James Beard Nominees

Posted on February 20, 2013February 20, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Chefs, Cooking, Restaurants, Southern Food, United States3 Minutes Read

And to Think it all Started with a French Cookbook: Forty Years of Chez Panisse

And to Think it all Started with a French Cookbook: Forty Years of Chez Panisse

Posted on August 23, 2011August 23, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Chefs, Cookbooks, Cooking, Critic's Corner, Food writing, France, French Cooking, Restaurants1 Minute Read

The Weird, Different, and Just Plain Interesting Restaurants of Paris: A Photo Gallery

The Weird, Different, and Just Plain Interesting Restaurants of Paris: A Photo Gallery

Posted on July 18, 2011July 18, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn France, French Cooking, Photography, Restaurants1 Minute Read

Scenes from La France Profonde

Scenes from La France Profonde

Posted on March 18, 2011March 17, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cakes, France, French Cooking, Photography, Pies--Sweet, Restaurants1 Minute Read

Scenes from La France Profonde

Scenes from La France Profonde

Posted on February 5, 2011February 5, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn France, French Cooking, Photography, Pork, Restaurants1 Minute Read

Idylls of Cuisine, #66

Idylls of Cuisine, #66

Posted on June 13, 2010June 13, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cucumbers, Photography, Restaurants, Spanish cooking1 Minute Read

If Salvador Dalí Dreamed Ferran Adrià

If Salvador Dalí Dreamed Ferran Adrià

Posted on October 10, 2009October 11, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Music, Restaurants1 Minute Read

Cooking in Italy

Cooking in Italy

Posted on March 21, 2009March 8, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Italian Cooking, Italy, Photography, Restaurants, Video1 Minute Read

Tavern on the Green: 125 Recipes for Good Times

Tavern on the Green: 125 Recipes for Good Times

Posted on January 27, 2009January 27, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Restaurants1 Minute Read

Palette Didn’t Deliver: Inaugural Dining on the Streets of Washington, DC

Palette Didn’t Deliver: Inaugural Dining on the Streets of Washington, DC

Posted on January 20, 2009January 20, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Food News, Restaurants1 Minute Read

Sunday Suppers at Lucques: A Review in Rhapsody

Sunday Suppers at Lucques: A Review in Rhapsody

Posted on January 8, 2009January 8, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Restaurants4 Minutes Read

Italian Cooking in Paradise: A16 is A-1

Italian Cooking in Paradise: A16 is A-1

Posted on September 29, 2008September 29, 2008 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Restaurants3 Minutes Read

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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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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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