Le Ménagier de Paris

Ménagier de Paris is a work of the Middle Ages, which gives extensive guidance on the management of a household. It is an anonymous work from the late 14th century, written by an older man bourgeois state for his fifteen- year-old wife. In Ménagier to find not only recipes, but also numerous references to the procurement and preservation of food, an assortment of dining plans, suggestions for falconry and for selecting and keeping of horses to curiosities, such as the description of small magic tricks for entertainment tables can be demonstrated, or instructions for making ink or glue.

Together with other medieval recipe collections such as Le Viandier or you fait de cuisine, Ménagier de Paris is a key work for the development of food culture and way of life in medieval France. The Romanist Terence Scully has described this work as one of almost encyclopedic extent.