Joy of Cooking, The.
[Cookbooks]. Rombauer, Irma S. Unusual and Unpublished Recipes. St. Louis: Women’s Alliance, (1928).
8vo.; crude wrappers, tied with a green satin ribbon; illustration of woman bearing a pie on the front cover; rear cover lightly chipped; a handsome copy of a fragile, limited, “home-made” publication. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
Together with:
Rombauer, Irma S. The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Illustrations Marion Rombauer. (St. Louis: A.C. Clayton, 1931).
Thick 8vo.; illustrations throughout; some occasional and predictable pencil ticking throughout; green pebbled cloth. In a specially made cloth folding box.
First edition of Rombauer’s landmark work - with a contemporary signature and scattered marginal notes - , together with a delicate hand-assembled compilation of recipes that predates The Joy of Cooking by three full years. The first edition of The Joy of Cooking was published in a minute edition at Rombauer’s own expense in her hometown of St. Louis; to date, it has been reprinted more often than any other English language cookbook.
Rombauer is now regarded as the foremother of the modern American domestic culinary tradition; as such, her works have claimed a unique place within 20th-century women’s social history.
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