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...prove monstrously profitable, as well as an idea whose time has come. Actually doing so proved monstrously tricky. For aside from its encyclopedic thoroughness, much of the cookbook's perennial appeal has stemmed from the distinctive, comforting, we're-all-in-this-together voices of two women: Irma Rombauer, who wrote and self-published the original Joy in 1931, and her daughter Marion Rombauer Becker, who first served as her mother's helper and later assumed full custodianship of the ongoing endeavor. Dying of cancer, Marion concluded her acknowledgments to the 1975 edition in a valedictory manner...
...Roland Barthes, Le Plaisir du texte, table of contents. b. Alex Comfort, ed., The Joy of Sex, table of contents. c. Irma Rombauer, The Joy of Cooking, s.b. "Mushrooms...
...Nowadays," says Lang, "women often start with elaborate recipes but have no idea how to make a basic cream sauce." Therefore, he recommends that every cook have a step-by-step volume like Irma Rombauer and Marion Becker's Joy of Cooking (Bobbs-Merrill; $10.95 hardcover; New American Library; $4.95 paper) or, for the more advanced practitioner, Jacques Pépin's La Technique (Quadrangle; $25). He would add not only recipe books, but also several volumes that concern the philosophy and history of food. Lang's choices...
Died. Marion Rombauer Becker, 74, co-author (with her late mother Irma Rombauer) of Joy of Cooking, America's bible of the kitchen; of cancer; in Cincinnati. Twelve editions of Joy have guided millions of cooks in such divergent intricacies as skinning a beaver tail and creating a successful souffle since the work was first published...
...most brides, the guide during the transitional years was Irma Rombauer's Joy of Cooking, a primer that marked a distinct advance upon Fannie...