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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

Transform Your Aching Soul with Cooking

Transform Your Aching Soul with Cooking

Posted on June 12, 2016June 13, 2016 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, England, English Cooking, Peaches, Photography6 Minutes Read

Long Ago, When Chickens had Teeth …*

Long Ago, When Chickens had Teeth …*

Posted on October 28, 2012April 2, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cooking, Food writing, Photography, Southern Food3 Minutes Read

The Lost Arabs of Marseille: Food, Family, and France

The Lost Arabs of Marseille: Food, Family, and France

Posted on June 17, 2011September 21, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Chicken, France, French Cooking4 Minutes Read

Cooking with Mushrooms: Chicken and Walnuts and Baby Bellas, Oh My!

Cooking with Mushrooms: Chicken and Walnuts and Baby Bellas, Oh My!

Posted on October 7, 2010October 7, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chicken, Cooking, Europe, France, French Cooking, Mushrooms2 Minutes Read

The Random Herbalist: Books About Monastic and Medieval Gardens

The Random Herbalist: Books About Monastic and Medieval Gardens

Posted on July 27, 2009December 20, 2015 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Bibliographies, Gardens, Herbs, Monasteries3 Minutes Read

Anyone Can Build a Whizbang Chicken Scalder (Even You!)

Anyone Can Build a Whizbang Chicken Scalder (Even You!)

Posted on June 13, 2009June 11, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Chicken, Poultry1 Minute Read

Chicken Curry, From Réunion (the Country)

Chicken Curry, From Réunion (the Country)

Posted on May 11, 2009May 11, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn African Cooking, Réunion2 Minutes Read

Palm Oil, Chicken In

Palm Oil, Chicken In

Posted on May 9, 2009May 9, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Chicken, Oil Palm, Recipes1 Minute Read

Dame Alice de Bryene’s Household Book: Easter 1413

Dame Alice de Bryene’s Household Book: Easter 1413

Posted on April 8, 2009April 8, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chicken, Easter, English Cooking, Middle Ages, Recipes3 Minutes Read

Can a 3-Star French Chef Be a Regular Guy? Marc Meneau Tries

Can a 3-Star French Chef Be a Regular Guy? Marc Meneau Tries

Posted on August 20, 2008November 29, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Chicken, French Cooking, Recipes5 Minutes Read

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

My 2nd Book – Praised by Publishers Weekly as “a remarkable book.”

My 1st Book – Mushroom: A Global History

My book, now available! On Kindle, too!

The Author

My Amazon Author Page

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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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