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...every cookbook, there are 50 kookbooks, with titles like The Galloping Gourmet, What Cooks in Suburbia, Wolf in Chefs Clothing, Feed the Brute, Wurst You Were Here, and Abalone to Zabaglione. Apparently, publishers will publish anything that has recipes in it. There is a recent book called Fine Food, Wine, and Pickled Pine, for example, which is subtitled "The Story of Coventry Forge Inn" and contains a chapter headed "Our Recipes-Haute and Not so Haute." The negative approach is big these days. Holt, Rinehart & Winston has put out The Madison Avenue Cookbook "for people who can't cook...
...such oversized housewifely problems as bedtime hot-water bottles requested by the British royal family during a 1939 summer visit, and frightening morning memos from Mrs. F.D.R. ("Mrs. Nesbitt: There will be 5,000 to tea"), then chronicled it all in the bestselling White House Diary and The Presidential Cookbook; after a long illness; in Bethesda...
...respect, and the beginners, to whom "basting" was something done with a needle and thread, were pathetically grateful. Bobbs-Merrill, equally impressed, brought it out publicly four years later. Since then, The Joy of Cooking has sold more than 6,000,000 copies to become the second largest-selling cookbook in the world* and as familiar a staple in the American kitchen as salt...
...letters a day, streamed into her St. Louis home; the Cordon Bleu and London's Flower School brought out an English edition of The Joy of Cooking; the story goes that an eloping bride sent her family a cable-AM MARRIED. ORDER ANNOUNCEMENTS. SEND ME ROMBAUER COOKBOOK AT ONCE...
...PIES AND OTHER RECIPES (by Marjorie Winslow, with illustrations by Erik Blegvad; Macmillan; $2.50) varies between arch and fallen arch. The sly fringe benefit for parental readers is the spoofing of standard cookbook lingo. Sample recipe...