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Joy of Cooking - All about Chicken

Joy of Cooking - All about Chicken( )
Contribution by: Scribner Staff,
Author: Rombauer, Irma S.
Becker, Ethan
Becker, Marion Rombauer
ISBN:978-0-7432-0204-6
Publication Date:Oct 2000
Publisher:Scribner
Imprint:Scribner
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $15.95
Book Description:

The book that taught America how to cook,now illustrated with glorious color photographyALL ABOUT CHICKEN A fresh and original way to put the classic advice ofJoy of Cookingto work -- illustrated and designed in a beautiful and easy-to-use new book. Organized by techinique -- roasting, broiling, baking, braising, grilling, frying, and more More than 100 ofJoy'srecipes, including the legendary Chicken Fricassee, Chicken Cordon Bleu, and Turned Roasted Chicken Invaluable techniques and...
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Book Details
Pages:128
Detailed Subjects: Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Poultry
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.75 x 10 x 0.71 Inches
Book Weight:1.573 Pounds
Author Biography
Rombauer, Irma S. (Contribution by)
Irma S. Rombauer, Irma Rombauer was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the well-known author of "The Joy of Cooking." For the first book, she depended on friends and relatives for recipes, whose experience was in German cooking and baking. She wanted to write the book for the post Depression women who had not been in their kitchens, were busy and not overly interested in cooking, but wanted to create a wonderful meal with minimal effort. Her style in the book was to present the recipe as a narrative with one paragraph essays that had no separate ingredient lists or instructions. Rombauer approached cooking as a necessity and covered the entire scope of kitchen procedures, making the book easy to use in a home kitchen.

Her first attempt at publication took her to Indianapolis to meet with D. Laurance Chambers from Bobbs-Merrill Company. Chambers strategically rejected her during their first meeting and then persuaded Rombauer to do a revision with no advance payment or guarantee of publication. She produced a manuscript that filled fifteen notebooks, which were a combination of new and old recipes that were in her distinctive format. Rombauer naively believed that she could negotiate a contract with Chambers by herself and after weeks of well timed rages, that caused her to be ill for weeks after, Chambers got her to sign a contract the gave Bobbs-Merrill the copyright to the new edition and the original, self published edition. In subsequent contracts, Rombauer made sure that her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, would have editorial control in the event of her death or absence.

Rombauer's daughter had her first solo effort as editor for the 1962 edition, which was just a short time before her mother's death. Marion's interests in natural and raw foods and her desire to make the book more detailed and accurate can be seen in subsequent editions. Marion's son, Than Becker, became involved in the editorship of the book and ha



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