Skip to content

Cynthia D. Bertelsen's Gherkins & Tomatoes

A Writer's Musings on Nature and Culture, Since 2008

  • Home
  • About Cynthia D. Bertelsen’s Gherkins & Tomatoes + Contact Us
  • More about the author
  • Online Cookbooks and Other Culinary Materials: Sources

The Natural World, Part 2

The Natural World, Part 2

Posted on November 12, 2014November 12, 2014 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Photography1 Minute Read

Doing What’s Necessary: The Logical Outcome of Haute Cuisine, or, An Extremely Brief Meditation on the History of Privies and Toilets

Doing What’s Necessary: The Logical Outcome of Haute Cuisine, or, An Extremely Brief Meditation on the History of Privies and Toilets

Posted on May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Burkina Faso, Cooking, Food writing, France, Oral History, Photography4 Minutes Read

* “We raise the wheat, they give us the corn” : a reflection on life in antebellum Virginia

* “We raise the wheat, they give us the corn” : a reflection on life in antebellum Virginia

Posted on February 4, 2013February 6, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, Southern Food, Sweet Potatoes3 Minutes Read

*”Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new”: A Sweet Potato Rhapsody

*”Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new”: A Sweet Potato Rhapsody

Posted on January 25, 2013February 6, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, African Cooking, American Cooking, Bibliographies, Southern Food3 Minutes Read

* Biscuits and Buttermilk: A New Year and New Directions

* Biscuits and Buttermilk: A New Year and New Directions

Posted on January 2, 2013April 2, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Agriculture, American Cooking, Cookbooks, Cooking, Food writing, Gardens, Photography, Pork, Southern Food2 Minutes Read

Savoring the Daily on the Fringes of the Coalfields

Savoring the Daily on the Fringes of the Coalfields

Posted on December 8, 2012April 2, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Hungary, Photography, Southern Food2 Minutes Read

Cabbage and Black-Eyed Peas, Oh My! A New Year’s Tradition in the South

Cabbage and Black-Eyed Peas, Oh My! A New Year’s Tradition in the South

Posted on December 22, 2010January 2, 2017 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Africa, African Cooking, Cooking, France, New Year's Day, Southern Food4 Minutes Read

Thomas Jefferson and His Magic “Maccaroni” Machine

Thomas Jefferson and His Magic “Maccaroni” Machine

Posted on January 11, 2010January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cooking, Italian Cooking, Pasta, United States, Virginia1 Minute Read

Idylls of Cuisine, #44

Idylls of Cuisine, #44

Posted on January 3, 2010January 3, 2010 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cookbooks, Cooking, Home Economics, Photography, Southern Food, Virginia1 Minute Read

Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg: Slideshow

Chocolate and Coffee Pots from Colonial Williamsburg: Slideshow

Posted on December 30, 2009January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Cooking, English Cooking, Photography, Virginia1 Minute Read

Idylls of Cuisine, #43

Idylls of Cuisine, #43

Posted on December 27, 2009December 27, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn Cooking, English Cooking, Photography, Southern Food, United States, Virginia1 Minute Read

Civil War Christmases

Civil War Christmases

Posted on December 10, 2009January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Christmas, Cooking, England, English Cooking, Menus, United States, Virginia5 Minutes Read

Christmas Dinner at Mount Vernon, 1790

Christmas Dinner at Mount Vernon, 1790

Posted on December 9, 2009January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Christmas, Cooking, Menus, United States, Virginia2 Minutes Read

Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg

Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg

Posted on December 7, 2009December 8, 2009 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, Bibliographies, Christmas, Cooking, English Cooking, Oysters, Southern Food2 Minutes Read

Baking in Colonial Virginia

Baking in Colonial Virginia

Posted on March 7, 2009January 14, 2013 by Cynthia BertelsenIn American Cooking, English Cooking, Video1 Minute Read

Tag: Virginia

Looking for Something Specific?

The Author

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 2,987 other followers

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!

My Amazon Author Page

Click on the photo to go my Amazon.com Author Page.

 

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.

Book Reviews by Cynthia Bertelsen

Reviews for The Roanoke Times

Reviews for New York Journal of Books

 

Posts Since 2008

Topics You’ll Find Here

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Instagram with a Florida Flavor

Big batch of sofrito getting done.
Tostones! First learned about them in Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico. Then cooked them in Honduras while associated with United Brands in La Lima.
Cuban picadillo with fried potatoes and an egg, a caballo.
The Master's study.

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

WordPress.com.