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Introducing Sarah Rutledge, a Cookbook Author You’re Going to Get to Know Very Well!

Introducing Sarah Rutledge, a Cookbook Author You’re Going to Get to Know Very Well!

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bibliographies, Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference, Southern cooking, Southern Food, Writing7 Minutes Read

Biscuits or Scones: British Origins of an American Favorite!

Biscuits or Scones: British Origins of an American Favorite!

Posted on January 27, 2018July 28, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Bread, Cookbooks, Cooking, England, English Cooking, Photography, Southern cooking2 Minutes Read

Happy Christmas to All!

Happy Christmas to All!

Posted on December 8, 2017December 8, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cakes, Christmas, England, English Cooking, Southern cooking1 Minute Read

Pumping Sunshine: Susie H. Baxter’s Rural North Florida Childhood

Pumping Sunshine: Susie H. Baxter’s Rural North Florida Childhood

Posted on November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Florida, Southern cooking3 Minutes Read

Muses: Cross Creek and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Muses: Cross Creek and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Posted on September 30, 2017September 30, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Florida, Food writing, Southern cooking3 Minutes Read

9 Years of Writing about History … A Celebration!

9 Years of Writing about History … A Celebration!

Posted on July 27, 2017July 27, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn African Cooking, American Cooking, Cookbooks, England, English Cooking, Florida, France, French Cooking, Photography, Southern cooking, Southern Food, Spain, Spanish cooking5 Minutes Read

This Wild Land: Florida, Zora Neale Hurston, & Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

This Wild Land: Florida, Zora Neale Hurston, & Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Posted on July 21, 2017July 22, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Florida, Southern cooking4 Minutes Read

Tales of Alligator Flesh and Tails

Tales of Alligator Flesh and Tails

Posted on July 12, 2017July 12, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Alligator, Cookbooks, Florida, Photography, Southern cooking, Southern Food4 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 Seminoles, Eli Lilly, and the Ancient Saw Palmetto of Florida

The Seminoles, Eli Lilly, and the Ancient Saw Palmetto of Florida

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Cookbooks, Gardens, Photography, Southern cooking3 Minutes Read

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My 3rd Book – A Story of Witchcraft, Healing, & Love

My 2nd Book – Winner of Best in the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards and Praised by Publishers Weekly as “a remarkable book.”

Local Author Series – 11/24/19

My 1st Book – Mushroom: A Global History

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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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