The Joy of Cooking
 Joy of Cooking often known as The Joy of Cooking is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks and has been in print continuously since 1936 and with more than 18 million copies sold. It was privately published in 1931 by Irma S. Rombauer a homemaker in St. Louis Missouri who was struggling emotionally and financially after her husband's suicide the previous year. Rombauer had 3000 copies printed by A.C. Clayton a company which had printed labels for fancy St.