[Sca-cooks] Another Le Mesnagier de Paris
emilio szabo
emilio_szabo at yahoo.it
Tue Aug 11 09:54:02 PDT 2009
> Has anyone seen (perhaps someone in Europe)
> Le Mesnagier de Paris : La cuisine médiévale à la fin du XIVe siècle
>
> by Marty Dufaut Josy?
> 15 euros
Il s'agit
It is a book of 64 pages, large format. The author, Josy Marty-Dufaut,
a former teacher (according to the short portrait in "La Gastronomie du Moyen Age. 170 recettes
adaptées à nos jours", 1999) has written several other books on medieval cuisine.
I have not read the whole book, but I will try to give some first impressions.
The book contains grosso modo two parts: one part with introductory chapters on the Menagier and medieval cuisine
(e.g. the author and his work, chapters on different foods, the medicinal background, cooking techniques etc.).
This fills page 2 to 24.
The pages 25 to 61 contain selected recipes, adapted from "Mesnagier". So far, I have not found out, which edition the author used.
There is a small bibliography, but the Menagier is not mentioned there. The recipes are integrated in sort of a portrait of the "Mesnagier" culinary corpus.
Each adapted recipe starts with the original text (without reference), a description of the adapted cooking mode and a list of the ingredients.
The photos are beautiful!
E.
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