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In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Day 8

In a State of Siege: Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Day 8

Posted on March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Florida, United States, Writing4 Minutes Read

In Ernest Hemingway’s Key West Kitchen

In Ernest Hemingway’s Key West Kitchen

Posted on June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Cuban food, Florida, Photography2 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

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

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

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

A Murder of Crows, An Unkindness of Ravens

A Murder of Crows, An Unkindness of Ravens

Posted on October 11, 2017November 8, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Florida2 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

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

Traces of Old Florida

Traces of Old Florida

Posted on September 17, 2017September 17, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Florida, Photography1 Minute Read

Cooking with Hurricane Irma, Part IV: Going Green: a Riff on Salsa Verde

Cooking with Hurricane Irma, Part IV: Going Green: a Riff on Salsa Verde

Posted on September 11, 2017September 10, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks1 Minute Read

Florida Oranges, and Other White House Desserts

Florida Oranges, and Other White House Desserts

Posted on August 28, 2017August 29, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Chefs, Cookbooks, Cooking, Desserts, Florida, French Cooking, White House4 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

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

It’s the Environment, Stupid

It’s the Environment, Stupid

Posted on June 2, 2017June 13, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Florida, Photography1 Minute Read

Fussy Eaters, or, The Plants in My Garden

Fussy Eaters, or, The Plants in My Garden

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Florida, Gardens, Photography2 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

Art, Spirit, Life: The Joys and the Sorrows of Trees

Art, Spirit, Life: The Joys and the Sorrows of Trees

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography4 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

Swamp Cabbage and Sunshine: Craziest-Ever Hearts of Palm Salad Sums Up Florida’s Food History

Swamp Cabbage and Sunshine: Craziest-Ever Hearts of Palm Salad Sums Up Florida’s Food History

Posted on June 26, 2014June 26, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Florida, Local foods, Photography6 Minutes Read

Coming Home to Roost: The Chickens of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Coming Home to Roost: The Chickens of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Posted on November 28, 2011January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Florida, Photography, Poultry2 Minutes Read

Majorie Kinnan Rawlings and Cross Creek

Majorie Kinnan Rawlings and Cross Creek

Posted on March 25, 2009April 21, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Photography, Southern Food1 Minute 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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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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