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Joy of Cooking 1931 Facsimile Edition: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1931
by Irma S. Rombauer
from Scribner

Features:

• Facsimile

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• But know what you're buying.
  I don't know how one rates a reprinted book.
  Cookbooks have changed considerably over the past century. This is a REPRINT of the original 1931 cookbook, meaning that the recipes, methods, and layout/instructional style are from 1931. It's not just "retro recipes". It is *not* a modern cookbook. The vagueness of some of the directions and the odd recipes are par for the course for cookbooks of this vintage. You think these are weird? Look up some late 19th century cookbooks and see how much sense they... more info

• A disappointment
  I have a falling-apart edition of Joy of Cooking (I think 1964), so I thought I'd try the original edition. What a disappointment. The recipes are extremely brief, without any help as to how to do things, and they look very uninteresting. I sent it back, and (luckily) found the 1964 edition -- absolutely untouched -- don't these people use the book to cook? -- in a local bookstore.

• 20 minutes for string beans - LOL
  I very much enjoyed this book and am encouraged to look into later editions. It's very interesting to see older versions of recipes. I like the smaller size of this hardcover which makes it easy to pick up and carry around for those moments when you want a light read while waiting on line in the post office or something. There is a scary part because there is a joke about a "colored man."

• An interesting hitorical relic but fairly useless cookbook for today
  I grew up in the '50s and my Mother had several cookbooks but "Joy of Cooking" was the bible. All my childhood favorites come from the book and when I moved out on my own it was the basic cookbook on which I relied. I bought a more recent version about 15 to 20 years ago but it wasn't as good. This is NOT the version with which I grew up. It's recipes are few, very dated, and, mostly, uninteresting. If you like oysters there's several.
  An interesting read for it's historical and sociologic value but... more info

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