The Joy of Cooking

Joy of Cooking, sometimes known as "The Joy of Cooking," is one of the most popular cookbooks in the United States. It has been in continuous publication since 1936 and has sold over 20 million copies. It was privately published in 1931 by Irma S. Rombauer (1877–1962), a housewife in St. Louis, Missouri, following the suicide of her husband the previous year. A.C. Clayton, a business that has created labels for upscale St. Louis shoe companies and Listerine mouthwash, but never a book, made 3,000 copies for Rombauer. The book was first published in 1936 by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, a commercial publishing business. The Joy of Cooking is the most popular American cookbook, with nine editions.

This 2006 edition is an updated version of the Rombauer family-approved 1975 book, and it retains much of the voice lost in the 1997 edition. For further information on the discrepancies between versions, see The New York Times article from 2006, but for the sake of the canon, simply know that the 2006 version is Epi-approved.

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