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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
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