<P> Le Viandier (often called Le Viandier de Taillevent, pronounced (lə vjɑ̃dje də tajvɑ̃)) is a recipe collection generally credited to Guillaume Tirel, alias Taillevent . However, the earliest version of the work was written around 1300, about 10 years before Tirel's birth . The original author is unknown, but it was common for medieval recipe collections to be plagiarized, complemented with additional material and presented as the work of later authors . </P> <P> Le Viandier is one of the earliest and best - known recipe collections of the Middle Ages, along with the Latin Liber de Coquina (early 14th century) and the English Forme of Cury (c. 1390). Among other things, it contains the first detailed description of an entremet . </P>

The origin of the cook book le viandier