Joy of Cooking
Subtitle: The All Purpose Cookbook
By: Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker ; illustrated by Ginnie Hofmann and Ikki Matsumoto
Contributors: Becker, Marion Rombauer, joint author
Edition: Sixth Edition, Fifth Revision
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company; Simon and Schuster/Scribner
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 849
Subjects: Cookery, American
Description: Includes more than 4500 recipes that range from simple, everyday food to classic and gourmet dishes.
Notes: Includes index.

"Special features in this edition include Know Your Ingredients, which reveals vital characteristics of the materials commonly combined in the kitchen, telling how and why they react as they do, how to measure them, how to substitute one for another, as well as amounts to buy. The book also includes information on nutrition, cooking processes and methods, and storing and preserving food. The how-to illustrations numbered 1,000, and this edition contained over 4,500 recipes." ([Source][1])


  [1]: http://www.thejoykitchen.com/history.lasso?tag=1975