"Me, I come from a Joy of Cooking household. I grew up with the edition of JOY that was bound in turquoise fabric and was first released sometime in the early 1960′s. It was a primary culinary reference in our house... That book taught me to make crepes and peanut butter cookies, and one of my favorite family traditions is the yearly Christmas Eve consultation, in...
Last month, the Library of Congress selected eighty-eight works of fiction and non-fiction from our nation's varied literary past--more specifically, books that have deeply affected the lives of American readers--to include in an exhibition entitled "Books That Shaped America." We are very proud and honored to report that ...
It is hard to say whether or not there has been a book that has made a greater impact to American home cooking as the Joy of Cooking. This extraordinary cookbook that the New York Times has called "the Swiss Army knife of cookbooks" received a face lift late last year as the 75th Anniversary Edition...
The James Beard Book Awards Committee Names 20 Essential Books to Build Your Culinary Library
New York, NY (November 5, 2007) - To acknowledge the 20th anniversary of the James Beard Foundation and the publication of a new edition of...
"The Joy of Cooking has always been a very important book. When it was first published, it made a great impression on American cooking. It is, and should continue to be a staple in any good culinary collection because Irma's voice is there with you in the kitchen giving guidance and encouragement and friendly tips and reminders. The why's and how's are...
One year after publication of the stellar 75th Anniversary edition, the Joy of Cooking makes it back to the New York Times Best Seller list. Join us as we celebrate this achievement, and congratulate JOY on this and other accolades:
"The Joy of Cooking has always been a very important book. It should continue to be a staple in any good...
"Great cookbooks are not just collections of interesting recipes. They are, first and foremost, books that tell a story, the story of how people lived and cooked at a particular point in time. They reveal, to borrow an expression from James Beard, their delights and prejudices, their view of the social order, their...
"In our kitchen, Joy of Cooking is a tool as indispensable as the chef's knife, the scale, the whisk. We actually own two copies--a shelf-copy for reading, and one whose sauce-splattered, dog-eared pages bear witness to just how much joy we get from Joy." " --Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of The...
"I have purchased Joy of Cooking for all my restaurant libraries as well as my own. The recipes always work--always--and the informational chapters are accurate, to the point, and incredibly helpful--couldn’t live with out it!!" --Cindy Pawlcyn, author of Big Small Plates
