The Joy of Cooking; Illustrated by Ginnie Hofman
New York: The Bobby’s-Merrill Company Inc., 1953. Hardcover. 1013 pages. 22 x 14 cm. After the suicide of her husband in 1930, Irma Rombauer cobbled together a cookbook, illustrated by her daughter Marion. By 1936 the Bobbs-Merrill Company agreed to publish the expanded version, keeping the narrative style later known..... More

