![]() ![]() ![]() “It now goes to print with a number of emergency chapters added, written to meet the difficulties that beset the present-day cook,” she wrote. Rombauer wrote that when the book was begun they had no idea that ration cards would become the norm and that adjustments to the book’s contents would have to be made. And the preface.Īt the front of the book in a special “Preface to the 1943 Edition,” the author, Irma S. But what drew me to the older version was the heavy oilcloth cover that had been hand-sewn over the book to protect the binding. I already have a copy of the book – the 1975 edition – that I use to look up the odd recipe now and then. I’m not a cookbook collector, I’m not really much of a cookbook user, but that didn’t stop me from bringing home a 1943 copy of The Joy of Cooking from an antiques show last year. ![]()
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