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Marion Rombauer Becker

Marion Rombauer Becker

Marion Rombauer Becker

Irma Rombauer self-published the first Joy of Cooking in 1931 with the small insurance payout she received after her husband committed suicide during the Great Depression. Suddenly, society wives who used to enjoy a kitchen staff no longer had the money to employ them and began cooking for themselves. The instruction "stand facing the stove" was a bit more pragmatic than we realize. In 1936, the first commercial edition was published by Bobbs-Merrill. Marion Rombauer Becker, Irma's daughter, joined the Joy dynasty and revised and updated each subsequent edition until 1975. That edition was the first after Irma's death and was completely Marion's. Her son, Ethan... Read full bio

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Gifts for the cook who has nothing
Pocono Record, December 7, 2011
...books they would recommend as gifts for a beginner cook. "The Joy of Cooking" by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker (The Bobbs-Merrill Co., $22.95). The original republished in 1985. "The Joy of Cooking" is one of most-published cookbooks in the...