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| Author | Irma S. Rombauer |
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| Genre | Cookbook |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill, Scribner |
Publication date | 1931 |
| ISBN | 0-02-604570-2 |
| OCLC | 1444322 |
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. 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]
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