Taillevent

Taillevent alias Guillaume Tirel (1310-1395) was the cook of the kings of France Charles V and Charles VI. He wrote a famous book on cookery named Le Viandier.

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Text edition:

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• Viandier of Taillevent: An Edition of All Extant Manuscripts, University of Ottawa Press 1988 ISBN 0776601741
• Le Viandier de Guillaume Tirel dit Taillevent, le Baron Jérôme Pichon et Georges Vicaire, Paris 1892 (reprint by Slatkine Reprints, Genève, 1967)