Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking
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Book Overview
A profile of Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, the mother-daughter authors of the popular cookbook.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0805029044
ISBN13:9780805029048
Release Date:November 1996
Publisher:Henry Holt and Co.
Length:496 Pages
Weight:1.95 lbs.
Dimensions:9.6" x 1.5" x 6.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
"Joy" Was Not Always Such Joy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
The Joy Of Cooking was my first cookbook given to me by my mother. And reading the recipe as it were, as how it all came about is quite compelling.Take one family--the St. Louis Rombauers--from good German stock. Add a 1931 vanity printing of Mrs. Rombauer's mostly unexceptional recipes: molded fruit salads, Kitchen Bouquet-colored gravies, things involving canned soup. Watch this collection rise into a successful commercial volume, leavened by its idiosyncratic voice (comparing a "vegetable plate, unadorned" to Gandhi's bald head, the amateur chef recommended a sprig of parsley). Throw in a contentious author-publisher relationship, plus daughter Marion Rombauer Becker's reluctant inheritance of her mother's legacy, and a delicious story forms. Mendelson, who writes for Gourmet, discusses this most definitively American kitchen manual with measured but contagious relish. Like The Joy of Cooking, her closely researched work will be many things to many people. It's publishing history, intimate biography, and a record of changing national tastes--a practically foolproof repast.
excellent history but very "wordy"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
Anne Mendelson gave a very descriptive account of life in St. Louis. She loves large words and uses them correctly, but it could have been a shorter book with less words
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