Item #3500 The Joy of Cooking; Illustrated by Ginnie Hofman. Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker.
The Joy of Cooking; Illustrated by Ginnie Hofman

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 as the "action method", in which ingredients are called for within the recipe. This "new" Joy of Cooking - a joint venture with her daughter Marion - fully revised, 4000 recipes and 150 drawings, takes into account new methods of cooking. Minor stains to interior, dust wrapper chipped with closed tears. Covered in protective mylar. Blue illustrated cloth covered boards. Very good, in good dust wrapper. Item #3500

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