Irma rombauer joy of cooking

This article is about the cookbook. For the folk-rock band, see Joy of Cooking (band).

1931 book by Irma S. Rombauer

Joy of Cooking, often known as "The Joy of Cooking",^[1] is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks.

It has been in print continuously since 1936 and has sold more than 20 million copies.^[2] It was published privately during 1931 by Irma S. Rombauer (1877–1962), a homemaker in St. Louis, Missouri, after her husband's suicide the previous year.

Joy of cooking recipe index

Joy of cooking recipe index

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Privately printed in , Joy has always been family affair, and like a family it has grown.

Rombauer had 3,000 copies printed by A.C. Clayton, a company which had printed labels for fancy St. Louis shoe companies and for Listerine mouthwash, but never a book. Beginning in 1936, the book was published by a commercial printing house, the Bobbs-Merrill Company.

With nine editions, Joy of Cooking is considered the most popular American cookbook.^[3]

Background

Main article: Irma S. Rombauer

Born to German immigrants in 1877, Irma Starkloff was born and