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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

Disaster, or How to Ruin a Vacation with One Tiny Misstep

Disaster, or How to Ruin a Vacation with One Tiny Misstep

Posted on November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Spain1 Minute Read

Don Quixote and Me

Don Quixote and Me

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Books, Cookbooks, Spanish cooking3 Minutes Read

Homage to La Cocina Española? Where are the Books?

Homage to La Cocina Española? Where are the Books?

Posted on October 2, 2019October 3, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Food writing, Spain, Spanish cooking4 Minutes Read

The Rice in Spain, Not So Easy to Explain

The Rice in Spain, Not So Easy to Explain

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, Cookbooks, Rice, Spain, Spanish cooking6 Minutes Read

Cooking Like a Catalan, No Matter Where You Are

Cooking Like a Catalan, No Matter Where You Are

Posted on September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Photography, Spanish cooking3 Minutes Read

Pilgrimages, or, “Life is Too Big to Walk it Alone”: “The Way” by Sheen and Estevez*

Pilgrimages, or, “Life is Too Big to Walk it Alone”: “The Way” by Sheen and Estevez*

Posted on September 29, 2011September 29, 2011 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Art, Films1 Minute Read

Idylls of Cuisine, #66

Idylls of Cuisine, #66

Posted on June 13, 2010June 13, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cucumbers, Photography, Restaurants, Spanish cooking1 Minute Read

Eating Cat Meat: A Taboo?

Eating Cat Meat: A Taboo?

Posted on June 7, 2010June 8, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, China, Cooking, Methods, Spain5 Minutes Read

Sugar, Saffron, Spices — The Arab Influence on Spanish Cuisine, a Brief Meditation

Sugar, Saffron, Spices — The Arab Influence on Spanish Cuisine, a Brief Meditation

Posted on June 2, 2010February 10, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Arab cooking, Beef, Cookbooks, Latin America, Middle Ages, Morocco, Spain, Spanish cooking5 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.”

Local Author Series – 11/24/19

My 1st Book – Mushroom: A Global History

My book, now available! On Kindle, too!

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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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Cuban picadillo with fried potatoes and an egg, a caballo.
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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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