Menon

The age of louis xv marks a high point in the cultural life of France. Cooking was no exception, acquiring all the pomp of a national movement as it came to be valued as a peculiarly French art. Between 1735 and 1755 more great cooks wrote more great cookbooks than in any comparable period before or since, and they enjoyed unprecedented recognition. The most successful member of this prolific generation was Menon, whose many books include the last of the great manuals of court cookery and the first of many cookbooks written for the bourgeoisie.