Constance Bartlett Hieatt

She was particularly known as one of the world's foremost experts in English medieval cooking and cookbooks, and authored and co-authored a number of important books considered essential publications in the field.

[1][2] Hieatt was born on 11 February 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts,[3] and grew up in New York City, where she attended Friends Seminary and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Hunter College.

She frequently collaborated with Sharon Butler, and they produced a bestseller with the 1976 book Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks (published in paperback in 1979, revised in 1996 with Brenda Hosington).

The Répertoire des manuscrits médiévaux contenant des recettes culinaires (1992, with Carole Lambert, Bruno Laurioux, and Alix Prentki) was published in Lambert's Du manuscrit à la table, which "to this day [remains] one of the most important reference works for medieval European cookbook manuscripts".

[4] Cocatrice and Lampray Hay contains the recipes found in the Middle English Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS F 291 (late 15th c).