Menagier de Paris
Ménagier de Paris is a work of the Middle Ages that gives extensive information on running a household. It is an anonymous work from the end of the 14th century , written by an elderly middle-class man for his fifteen-year-old wife.
In the Ménagier you will find not only recipes, but also numerous information on the procurement and preservation of food , a compilation of menu plans, suggestions for falconry and the selection and keeping of horses up to curiosities such as the description of little magic tricks that are used for entertainment Tables can be demonstrated, or instructions for making ink or glue. Together with other medieval recipe collections such as Le Viandier or Du fait de cuisine , Ménagier de Paris is a key work for opening up the food culture and way of life in medieval France. The novelist Terence Scully has described this work as one of almost encyclopedic proportions.
literature
- DN Dumville, Terence Scully: The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages. Studies in Anglo-Saxon History . Boydell & Brewer Inc 1998, ISBN 978-0851154305
Web links
- Publications on the Ménagier de Paris in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii