[Cooking] Scarce 1943 3rd Edition Wartime THE JOY OF COOKING Irma Rombauer HARDCOVER IN DUSTJACKET

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USA, BOBBS MERRILL, 1943, Hardcover w Dustjacket

THIRD, VG

[Cooking] Scarce 1943 3rd Edition Wartime THE JOY OF COOKING Irma Rombauer HARDCOVER IN DUSTJACKET

Irma S. Rombauer. THE JOY OF COOKING A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with an Occasional Culinary Chat.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1943. New and Enlarged Edition. THIRD EDITION. Hardcover in original non-priceclipped dustjacket.

Octavo. 8 1/2' x 6'. 884pp including index. Including nearly 3,500 recipes and menu plans for all occasions Price of $2.50. A very nice copy in a MILDLY chipped dust jacket. Some loss to jacket at head and tail of spine. Very good/very good. Interior very clean. Hinges strong.

In 1931 Rombauer self-published The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat with more than 500 tested recipes and related commentaries. After Rombauer had searched for a publisher and been rejected many times, the Bobbs-Merrill Company published an expanded (640 page) second edition on May 1, 1936. By the end of 1942, the second edition had had six printings, and 52,151 copies had been sold. In 1939, Rombauer published Streamlined Cooking, a collection of recipes that could be prepared in less than 30 minutes, with an emphasis on use of canned and frozen foods. This book was not a commercial success, but many of the recipes it contained became part of a new edition of Joy of Cooking published during 1943. This edition also included material intended to help readers deal with wartime rationing restrictions, including alternatives to butter in some recipes.