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Sales of Wendell Willkie's One World, fastest-selling book* in U.S. publishing history, were recently (and temporarily) topped in St. Louis - and by a cookbook. Author of the topper is St. Louis' Irma von Starkloff Rombauer. Title of her bestseller: The Joy of Cooking (Bobbs-Merrill...
...soldiers are the best fed in the world. They get better food than 60% of the civilian population, and the Army is so eager to have it taste right that last week in Washington a dozen experts were busy revising an Army cookbook issued only last July. The experts were headed by Mary I. Barber, formerly economist of the Kellogg Co., who went to Washington as a $1-a-year adviser of 0PM and has now become Food Consultant to the Secretary...
...Army cookbook is full of advice to cook dough until it is a "delicate brown," to keep meat "succulent and tender." There are also plenty of suggestions for mess sergeants, who are responsible for adapting Army menus to the locales in which their troops serve. Although soldiers in their first six months of service gain an average 8 to 16 Ib., few of them are satisfied with the food that is dished up to them...
...authority is Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book (standard English cookbook) checked and double-checked by the fact that I am English, was raised on Yorkshire Pudding and sich, and as it is one of my favorite dishes, I make it often...
...best-seller lists were what they pretend to be, they would show no change from one year to another. No matter what high-powered romances become popular for two months or two years, the Bible, the standard dictionaries and Fannie Farmer's Boston cookbook are perennially the best-selling books in the U. S. Below these three pieces of sacred and profane literature there are the new books that for convenience are called bestsellers. Each week the position of these ephemeral favorites are carefully checked. According to mysterious fluctuations in the public taste, books rise and fall in popularity...