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Joy of Cooking
by Rombauer, Irma S. (With Marion Rombauer Becker & Marion Rombauer Becker.) (Illustrations by Ginnie Hofmann; Beverly Warner.)
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- Hardcover
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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About This Item
Toronto: Thomas Allen & Son 1972, later printing. (Hardcover) 849pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, illustrations, index. The edges are lightly soiled, some tapestains on the endpapers, the dust jacket is edgeworn including a chip missing at the top of the spine. "revised & enlarged; over 4300 recipes; 1200 new recipes; new illustrations". Illustrations by Ginnie Hofmann & Beverly Warner. (Cookery, Cookbooks, Recipes).
Synopsis
Written by Irma Starkloff Rombauer, The Joy of Cooking was first tested and illustrated by her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker. Subsequently it was revised and enlarged through Marion?s efforts and those of her architect husband John Becker. Their sons?Ethan, with his Cordon Bleu and camping experiences, and Mark, with his interest in natural foods?have reinforced Joy in many ways.
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On Dec 21 2016, a reader said:
This is the best cook book I have ever owned and I have a bookcase full of them.It has the best recipes and has true potential of being the greatest cook book ever written..
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Details
- book dealer
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 155760
- Title
- Joy of Cooking
- Author
- Rombauer, Irma S. (With Marion Rombauer Becker & Marion Rombauer Becker.) (Illustrations by Ginnie Hofmann; Beverly Warner.)
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- second hand
- Quantity available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Allen & Son
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Keywords
- Cookery, Cookbooks, Recipes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Household and Domestic;
Terms of Sale
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