Editing Joy of Cooking (section)

== Legacy ==
The ''Joy of Cooking'' is considered the most popular American cookbook.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/dining/01joy.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Does the World Need Another 'Joy'? Do You?|author=Kim Seversonnov|date=1 November 2006|access-date=17 October 2018|archive-date=6 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706130659/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/dining/01joy.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Julia Child]] learned to cook from ''The Joy of Cooking'' and ''[[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]]'' magazine. She enjoyed "Mrs. Joy's Book" and believed it taught her the basic principles of cooking.<ref>{{Cite book|title=My Life in France|last=Child|first=Julia|publisher=Knopf|year=2006|isbn=1400043468|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mylifeinfrance00chil_0/page/126 126]|url=https://archive.org/details/mylifeinfrance00chil_0/page/126}}</ref>

The book popularized the title formula ''"The Joy of..."'' used to indicate an accessible, popular overview of a topic, such as ''[[The Joy of Painting]]'' (1983), ''[[The Joy of Sex]]'' (1972), ''The Joy of Art'' (2020), ''The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics'' (2012), ''The Joy of Living'' (2007), and even ''The Joy of Accounting'' (2020).