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In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Day 7

In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Day 7

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn United States, Writing3 Minutes Read

In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Day 6

In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Day 6

Posted on March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Photography, United States, Writing3 Minutes Read

In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Days 1 & 2

In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Days 1 & 2

Posted on March 17, 2020March 20, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn United States, Writing4 Minutes Read

Memories and Memory and Memoir

Memories and Memory and Memoir

Posted on February 22, 2020February 22, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Food writing, Writing3 Minutes Read

Any-Time-of-the-Year Resolutions for Writers

Any-Time-of-the-Year Resolutions for Writers

Posted on December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Writing2 Minutes Read

Holidays are A’Comin’ – Break Out the Gifts

Holidays are A’Comin’ – Break Out the Gifts

Posted on December 11, 2019March 9, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Writing1 Minute Read

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

The Perfect Book for National Mushroom Day!

The Perfect Book for National Mushroom Day!

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Mushrooms, Photography, Reference, Writing1 Minute Read

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

Coming Soon! My New Book!

Coming Soon! My New Book!

Posted on September 25, 2018October 4, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Books, Cookbooks, Drawings, Reference, Writing1 Minute Read

Breaking the Silence of the West, and Words Near to Fail Me

Breaking the Silence of the West, and Words Near to Fail Me

Posted on September 3, 2018September 3, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Oral History, Writing2 Minutes Read

Lauren Groff’s “Florida”: Nurturing Noirishness

Lauren Groff’s “Florida”: Nurturing Noirishness

Posted on July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Book Reviews, Florida, Writing2 Minutes Read

The Death of Anthony Bourdain

The Death of Anthony Bourdain

Posted on June 8, 2018June 8, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chefs, Cookbooks, Critic's Corner, United States, Writing1 Minute Read

Prelude to a Bio-Bibliography

Prelude to a Bio-Bibliography

Posted on May 20, 2018May 23, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bibliographies, Colonization, Latin America, Libraries, Writing4 Minutes Read

The Joy of Bibliographies

The Joy of Bibliographies

Posted on May 14, 2018May 14, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bibliographies, Food writing, Methods, Reference, Writing2 Minutes Read

Lessons from “The Great British Bake Off”

Lessons from “The Great British Bake Off”

Posted on April 8, 2018April 8, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, English Cooking, Photography, Writing2 Minutes Read

Bacopa Literary Review is Looking for a Few Good Writers

Bacopa Literary Review is Looking for a Few Good Writers

Posted on February 23, 2018March 2, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, 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

Birds of a Feather: Proverbs and Idioms

Birds of a Feather: Proverbs and Idioms

Posted on October 27, 2017October 27, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Florida, Writing2 Minutes Read

Bulow Plantation, of Florida’s Flagler County

Bulow Plantation, of Florida’s Flagler County

Posted on October 17, 2017October 17, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Writing2 Minutes Read

Surviving the Whiplashes of History and American Gun-Culture Violence

Surviving the Whiplashes of History and American Gun-Culture Violence

Posted on October 2, 2017October 11, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Editorials, Photography, Writing2 Minutes Read

William Bartram and the Nature of Florida

William Bartram and the Nature of Florida

Posted on September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Florida, Photography, Writing2 Minutes Read

Announcing My New Author Page

Announcing My New Author Page

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Food writing, Writing1 Minute 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)
  • The English Diaspora

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