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TAILLEVENT

Taillevent alias Guillaume Tirel (1310-1395) was the cook, beginning around 1325, of the kings of France, including Philip VI, Charles V and Charles VI. He wrote a famous book on cookery named Le Viandier that has been influential on subsequent books on French cuisine.

During the reign of Philip VI, Taillevent was a major influence in the rise of imperial favor for the strong red wines being produced in the south of France as well as those coming out of Burgundy. [1]

Taillevent refers also to one or more restaurants that capitalize on the name of this cook.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hugh Johnson, Vintage: The Story of Wine pg 127. Simon and Schuster 1989

Text edition:

  • 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)
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