Joy of Cooking (Hardcover)
Edition 75
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Seventy-five years ago, a St. Louis widow named Irma Rombauer took her life savings and self-published a book called The Joy of Cooking. Her daughter Marion tested recipes and made the illustrations, and they sold their mother-daughter project f......more
Seventy-five years ago, a St. Louis widow named Irma Rombauer took her life savings and self-published a book called The Joy of Cooking. Her daughter Marion tested recipes and made the illustrations, and they sold their mother-daughter project from Irma's apartment.
Today, nine revisions later, the Joy of Cooking -- selected by The New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important and influential books of the twentieth century -- has taught tens of millions of people to cook, helped feed and delight millions beyond that, answered countless kitchen and food questions, and averted many a cooking crisis.
Ethan Becker, Marion's son, leads the latest generation of JOY, still a family affair, into the twenty-first century with a 75th anniversary edition that draws upon the best of the past while keeping its eye on the way we cook now. It features a rediscovery of the witty, clear voices of Marion Becker and Irma Rombauer, whose first instructions to the cook were "stand facing the stove."
JOY remains the greatest teaching cookbook ever written. Reference material gives cooks the precise information they need for success. New illustrations focus on techniques, including everything from knife skills to splitting cake layers, setting a table, and making tamales.
This edition also brings back the encyclopedic chapter Know Your Ingredients. The chapter that novices and pros alike have consulted for over thirty years has been revised, expanded, and banded, making it a book within a book. Cooking Methods shows cooks how to braise, steam, roast, sauté, and deep-fry effortlessly, while an all-new Nutrition chapter has the latest thinking on healthy eating -- as well as a large dose of common sense.
This edition restores the personality of the book, reinstating popular elements such as the grab-bag Brunch, Lunch, and Supper chapter and chapters on frozen desserts, cocktails, beer and wine, canning, salting, smoking, je...
- Author:
- Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff
- Genre:
- COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / General
- Audience:
- General/trade
- Edition:
- 75
- Edition Detail:
- Anniversary
- Format:
- Hardcover
- Pages:
- 1132
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Scribner
- Publish Date:
- 10/31/2006
- Copyright Year:
- 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780743246262
- Height:
- 9.25 in
- Wdth:
- 6.75 in
- Thickness:
- 2.0 in
- Unit weight:
- 3.7 lb
- 5 Stars 19
- 4 Stars 1
- 3 Stars 0
- 2 Stars 0
- 1 Stars 0
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