Persona/period research...

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<Antoine Sebastian Dore<"Chris Walden" <cmwalden at bga.com>>>
>There is an excellent book called "The Medieval Home Companion" which 
>gives good descriptions of daily life...

The Translator is Tania Bayard.  The original work is "Le menagier de Paris"
and is often translated as the "The Goodwife of Paris", or similar titles.

You may want to read more than a single translation, to better find the
author's sense.

Diarmuit Ui Dhuinn