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“A Hastiness of Cooks” wins 2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Culinary History (USA)!!!

“A Hastiness of Cooks” wins 2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Culinary History (USA)!!!

Posted on February 7, 2020February 15, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute 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

Beef y-Stywyd, from “Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery Books”

Beef y-Stywyd, from “Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery Books”

Posted on May 24, 2019October 15, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, English Cooking, Reference1 Minute Read

What’s That You Say??? Medieval Culinary Terminology Unmasked*

What’s That You Say??? Medieval Culinary Terminology Unmasked*

Posted on May 23, 2019May 24, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Beef, Bibliographies, Cookbooks, England, English Cooking, Reference4 Minutes Read

Pignagoscé sur chapons (Pignagoscé on Capons), Plus Some Words on Paleography

Pignagoscé sur chapons (Pignagoscé on Capons), Plus Some Words on Paleography

Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Chicken, Cookbooks, Drawings, France, French Cooking, Recipes, Reference7 Minutes Read

“A Hastiness of Cooks”: A How-to Handbook for Lovers of Historic Cooking and Cookbooks

“A Hastiness of Cooks”: A How-to Handbook for Lovers of Historic Cooking and Cookbooks

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Archaeology, Art, Cookbooks2 Minutes Read

Pollos de Carretero con Salsa de Pobres ( Chicken a la Carters, with Black Pepper Sauce)

Pollos de Carretero con Salsa de Pobres ( Chicken a la Carters, with Black Pepper Sauce)

Posted on October 19, 2018October 29, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Archaeology, Art, Books, Cookbooks, Drawings, Photography, Reference1 Minute Read

Capouns In Councys, from The Forme of Cury (1390)

Capouns In Councys, from The Forme of Cury (1390)

Posted on October 4, 2018October 19, 2018 by Cynthia BertelsenIn England, English Cooking, Food writing, Photography1 Minute 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

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My Book about Africa, Now Available!

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

My book, now available! On Kindle, too!

Near Meknes, Morocco

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More about Mushroom: A Global History

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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