Editing Joy of Cooking (section)

{{about|the cookbook|the folk-rock band|Joy of Cooking (band)}}
{{short description|1931 book by Irma S. Rombauer}}
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| genre = [[Cookbook]]
| publisher = [[Bobbs-Merrill Company|Bobbs-Merrill]], [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]
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'''''Joy of Cooking''''', often known as "''The Joy of Cooking''",<ref>{{cite podcast | url=https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/rebuilding-paradise/ | title=Rebuilding Paradise | website=marketplace.org | publisher=[[NPR]] | host=[[Marketplace (radio program)]] | date=11 Nov 2019 | time=22:10 | access-date=11 Nov 2019 | archive-date=12 November 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112015410/https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/rebuilding-paradise/ | url-status=live }}</ref> is one of the United States' most-published [[cookbook|cookbooks]]. It has been in print continuously since 1936 and has sold more than 20 million copies.<ref>{{cite book |title=Joy of Cooking 2019 Edition Fully Revised and Updated |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Joy-of-Cooking/Irma-S-Rombauer/9781501169717 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=12 November 2019 |isbn=9781501169717 |access-date=15 December 2021 |quote=...more than 20 million copies in print.|last1=Rombauer |first1=Irma S. |last2=Becker |first2=Marion Rombauer |last3=Becker |first3=Ethan |last4=Becker |first4=John |last5=Scott |first5=Megan }}</ref> It was [[self-publishing|published privately]] during 1931 by [[Irma S. Rombauer]] (1877–1962), a [[homemaker]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], after her husband's suicide the previous year. Rombauer had 3,000 copies printed by A.C. Clayton, a company which had printed labels for fancy St. Louis shoe companies and for [[Listerine]] mouthwash, but never a book. Beginning in 1936, the book was published by a commercial printing house, the [[Bobbs-Merrill Company]]. With nine editions, ''Joy of Cooking'' is considered the most popular American cookbook.<ref name=NYT/>