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Binding: Hardcover Brand: Cookbook Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973 Fabric Type: 9780743246262 Fax Number: anniversary Legal Disclaimer: 0743246268 Maximum Color Depth: Scribner Maximum Focal Length:EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished Metal Type: Scribner Pearl Type: ROMBAUER Publisher: 1 Region Code: 1152 Total External Bays Free: October 31, 2006 Total Firewire Ports: Scribner
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Product Description: When the last edition of the Joy of Cooking appeared in 1997, it was a chef-centric, rarified global ingredient kind of moment. And now, 1997 seems very far away. This country is in an economically wobbly, terror-filled time where Americans have kept close to home both literally and figuratively. The 75th Anniversary Edition of the Joy of Cooking -- as it has always done -- speaks to the time it is published into. This Joy has come full circle from 1997 with a huge emphasis on American home cooking. We are not chasing the authentic Oaxacan enchilada here -- we have cheese, chicken, and beef. We have returned the casserole; included slow cooker recipes; restored chapters on jams, jellies, pickles, ice cream, and drinks. There is an eye to economy with expanded discussions on how to get the best out of tougher cuts of meat; the art of leftovers; and keeping household stock. With 500 completely new recipes and hundreds of recipes long edited out of previous editions, this is a brand-new, best-loved Joy of Cooking that rejoices in the cooking of the country that made it the bestselling cookbook of all time -- America.
BACK TO BASICS The perfect boiled egg*fluffy rice*pancakes light as air*choosing the perfect cut of meat* no fail cakes* knife skills* vegetables for every meal*cooking with fresh herbs*how to cook fish*roast chicken with crispy skin*fresh salads and homemade dressings*crisp fritters, fries, and onion rings* casserole cooking*finding the right sauce for the pasta*easy homemade pie dough*simple stock making*chewy and cakey cookies and brownies*quick pan sauces for meats
BRAND NEW A return to the American classics from enchiladas and chop suey to velvet cake and mud pie* all new illustrations*rich new soups*more grilling recipes*homemade ice cream and sorbet*slow cooker recipes*complete new grains*food for a crowd*how to freeze ingredients, dishes and entire meals*beverages and party drinks for entertaining and family meals* making jellies, jams and preserves* how to can fruits and vegetables*quick suppers*brining meats and shellfish
RETURN TO REFERENCE Cutting-edge nutritional information*Expanded Know Your Ingredients*More information about storing and keeping foods*more menu planning*new illustrations of techniques*new sections on high altitude baking and cooking*cooking with wine and spirits*stocking your pantry*buying the right equipment*expanded index*botanical information*ingredient substitutions*expanded information on fish and game*entertaining how-to from supper clubs to children's parties
Amazon.com Review: The much anticipated 75th anniversary edition of Irma Rombauer's kitchen classic Joy of Cooking promises to be as indispensable as past editions of this generational favorite. In addition to hundreds of brand-new recipes, this Joy is filled with many recipes from all previous editions, retested and reinvented for today's tastes.
Take the new Joy for a test-run in the kitchen with these featured recipes for Roast Brined Turkey and Apple Pie, and watch a video demonstration for their recipe for 10-in-One Cookies. And read on for celebrity chef "Odes to Joy," Joy timeline, and Joy trivia.
• 1930: The United States stock market crashes creating the great depression. • 1931: Irma Rombauer takes $3,000, the modest legacy her husband leaves at his death, and she self-publishes the first Joy of Cooking. She is 54 years old. • 1932: Irma tries to sell her book to a commercial publisher, Bobbs-Merrill of Indianapolis, IN, and is rejected. • 1933: Prohibition is repealed and Adolf Hilter becomes to Chancellor of Germany. • 1935: Bobbs-Merrill receives another submission of the Joy of Cooking from Irma. This version is not the self-published book but a revision, typed and bound in 15 notebook binders. • 1936: March 26 is the publication date for the first commercial Joy of Cooking. The first print run is 10,000 copies and the book costs $2.50. • 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge is completed in San Francisco and Gone with the Wind, a Scribner book, wins the Pulitzer Prize. • 1939: Bobbs-Merrill publishes Irma Rombauer's book Streamlined Cooking, a cookbook dedicated to convenience foods. The book is not a commercial success. • 1940: Freeze-drying is invented. • 1941: Pearl Harbor is attacked and America enters World War II. • 1943: The bestselling "wartime" edition of Joy of Cooking is published which includes how to creatively deal with the food rationing during World War II. • 1946: A "post-war" edition is printed with very few changes. • 1947: The microwave oven is invented. • 1951: Marion Rombauer Becker joins her mother Irma as co-author of this edition. • 1955: Gunsmoke debuts on CBS. • 1961: John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the President of the United States. • 1962: Irma Rombauer dies in her native St. Louis. The sixth edition of Joy of Cooking is published. • 1963: The French Chef with Julia Child debuts on public television. • 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first to walk on the moon. • 1970: The Beatles break up. • 1974: President Nixon resigns and Stephen King’s Carrie is published. • 1975: The first--and last--edition of Joy of Cooking that is completely Marion Rombauer Becker's work is published. • 1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes the Prime Minister of Great Britain. • 1980: The median household income in the United States is $19,074 and it seems the entire country is playing PacMan. • 1981: The first genetically engineer plant--the Flavr Savr tomato--is approved for sale. • 1984: Coca-Cola changes its 99-year-old formula and launches New Coke. • 1990: East and West Germany unite. • 1997: After a more than a two decade hiatus, the eighth edition of Joy of Cooking is published by Scribner with Ethan, Marion's son, at the helm. • 2006: A new edition of Joy of Cooking, based on the writing and structure of the 1975 edition, is published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Irma Rombauer's self-published cookbook.
Joy Trivia
• For the 75th anniversary edition, 4,500 recipes were tested that used a total of 400 pounds of butter, 300 quarts of milk, 485 pounds of red meat, and 275 pounds of fish and shellfish.
• The average age of a recipe tester working on the 75th anniversary edition was 46.7 years.
• Recipe testers spend 8,798 hours testing recipes and techniques for the latest edition.
• The knife was the first cutlery invented, followed by the spoon, and, much later, the fork (11th century A.D.).
• Caffeine is the most widely used behavior-changing chemical ingested worldwide.
• Eating cheese slows the decay of teeth.
• A light coating of oil speeds cooking and improves flavor of most grilled foods.
• Some of the most requested recipes from past Joy of Cooking editions include Chicken Marengo, Chocolate Cake (also known as the "Rombauer Special"), and Golden Glow Gelatin Salad.
• Ice is considered one of the most important ingredients in making drinks.
• Popsicles, baby back ribs, smoothies, and power bars are just a few of the recipes making their debut in the 2006 anniversary edition.
• The 2006 Joy of Cooking has instructions on using natural ingredients to color Easter eggs: beets for pink; chopped red cabbage for blue; tumeric for yellow; and the skins of 12 red onions for orange to burnt orange.
• Slow cooker recipes are included in the 2006 Joy for the first time.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - 75th Anniv. Edition "Joy of Cooking"
I have my own copy, purchased as a gift for my future daughter-in-law--she is pleased.
Rating: - Solid cookbook
I have the 1997 edition of Joy of Cooking and have been using it since 2000 or so. All the recipes that I have tried have worked well the first time around -- something I can't say of most other cookbooks. The book is very comprehensive and covers vegetarian, foreign/ethnic dishes, etc. It is not as colorful and richly illustrated as many other cookbooks, but the directions are clear enough. It delivers when you want to prepare classic meals from around the world. Highly recommended.
Rating: - The Joy Of Cooking
This book is a must have for just about everybody, whether you are an experienced cook, or a beginner, or a person who is looking to vary the "same old same old" dishes on which we all can get "stuck."
This book was advertised as "USED" and arrived quickly, well packaged and protected. I cannot tell the difference
in this particular copy from one that is BRAND NEW.
Speedy delivery to the Seattle area, considering we are seemingly at "the other end of the world." ... Read More
Rating: - The "Gold Standard" In Cookbooks! Highly Recommended!
The "Gold Standard" In Cookbooks! Highly Recommended!
We own several versions of "The Joy of Cooking", all of which are well broken in and show signs of heavy usage in our kitchen. My wife has a huge collection of cookbooks, but this is the most turned to. As my middle daughter is getting ready to head out to collage, we are getting her a copy of this excellent cookbook to take with her (mostly so she doesn't take ours :-)
The 4,500 recipes are great, and several have been ... Read More
Rating: - Joy of Cooking, 75th anniversary
I've had three or four Joys of Cooking before this one, all were stained,
written on, dogeared before I bought another one. I have bought many for gifts.
I really like this edition best of all--- why? Because of the index.
Cookbooks have always been notoriuosly difficult to index, according to my niece, the indexer.
"Great cookbooks are not just collections of interesting recipes. They are, first and foremost, books that tell a story, the story of how people lived and cooked at a particular point in time. They reveal, to borrow an expression from James Beard, their delights and prejudices, their view of the social order, their appetite for serving others food that meets the expectations of their social class. Food can be anything and everything from fuel to an object of intellectual curiosity to full-bore hedonism that transports the mind and body far from the dinner table with just one overwhelming bite. 
"I'm often asked to pick my favorite cookbook. Considering that there are over 3,000 cookbooks published each year, it's a daunting task to try to narrow them down. Speaking as a chef who never went to cooking school, I've been enthralled by certain cookbooks, immersing myself from cover to cover and learning about exotic cuisines from all over the world. But for just plain basic information, both the original and revised Joy of Cooking are still my bibles. I can't tell you how many times my wife Jackie and I have thumbed through the stained and broken-backed copy of Joy in our home kitchen, looking for our favorite angel food cake recipe, our favorite skillet corn bread, our favorite fluffy biscuits, and crisp waffles, and on and on. It's tough to picture my family table--or, in fact, the American table--without a well-worn copy of Joy of Cooking in the background." " --Tom Douglas, author of I Love Crab Cakes! 
"I highly recommend this book as a must-have in your kitchen. Chock full of great information, this book takes all of the guess work out and leaves no stone unturned." --Paula Deen, author of Paula Deen Celebrates! 
"In our kitchen, Joy of Cooking is a tool as indispensable as the chef's knife, the scale, the whisk. We actually own two copies--a shelf-copy for reading, and one whose sauce-splattered, dog-eared pages bear witness to just how much joy we get from Joy." " --Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook 
"Joy of Cooking is the ultimate reference guide that I have been using for years. It's timeless and packed with perfect recipes for the home cook that stands up to the test of time." --Tyler Florence, author of Tyler's Ultimate 
"Joy of Cooking is a book I turn to whenever I have a question about food or cooking. The new edition is the combined effort of some of the best cooks writing today; I know I can trust its information. And trust is, to my mind, the essential quality of all great cookbooks." --Sally Schneider, author of The Improvisational Cook 
"When Andrew first contemplated becoming a chef in the 1980s, he asked two Boston chefs of his acquaintance what books he should read. Each independently recommended Joy of Cooking as THE classic with reliable recipes for just about everything. (The second chef urged him to look for an early copy for the sheer entertainment value of reading how to cook a possum.) A decade later, when we interviewed 60 of America’s leading chefs for our first book Becoming a Chef, we asked them the same question--and again Joy was one of their five most recommended books. In fact, we recommend buying two copies, like we did: we keep our chocolate-smudged copy of Joy in our kitchen, and a reading copy on our bookshelves." --Andrew Dorenburg and Karen Page, authors of What to Drink with What You Eat 
"Our Joy of Cooking is dog-eared, flour dusted, chocolate smudged, oil spattered, and easily the most used cookbook on the shelf. The staggering amount of information in the book taught us the basics when we were in our teens and has informed our cooking for the decades since. We wish we had written it!" --Johanne Killeen and George Germon, authors of On Top of Spaghetti 
"I received a copy of Joy of Cooking in my late teens. I have treasured the cookbook ever since and still use it frequently as a reference. In the late 80's I was asked to represent American Cooking in Italy. I cooked all over the country for 2 months. The only book I took was Joy of Cooking. When ingredients that I had ordered did not show up and I had to totally wing it, I used this book to get me out of a few jams--like what the proportions are to make your own baking powder! If I could have only one cookbook--other than my own of course!--it would be Joy of Cooking–-as it is the bible of American cooking" --Kathy Casey, author of Kathy Casey's Northwest Table 
"I have purchased Joy of Cooking for all my restaurant libraries as well as my own. The recipes always work--always--and the informational chapters are accurate, to the point, and incredibly helpful--couldn’t live with out it!!" --Cindy Pawlcyn, author of Big Small Plates 
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