1 option
Stand Facing the Stove : the story of the women who gave America the Joy of cooking / Anne Mendelson.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX649.A1 M46 1996
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mendelson, Anne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rombauer, Irma S., 1877-1962.
- Rombauer, Irma S.
- Rombauer, Irma S., 1877-1962. Joy of cooking.
- Becker, Marion Rombauer.
- Cooks--United States--Biography.
- Cooks.
- Cooking, American--History--20th century.
- Cooking, American.
- Cooking--United States.
- Cooking.
- Cookbooks.
- Cookbooks as Topic.
- cookbooks.
- Joy of cooking (Rombauer, Irma S.).
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cookbooks as Topic.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- cookbooks.
- Biographies.
- Cookbooks.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (inscription)
- Mendelson, Anne (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, [2], 474, [2] pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Heny Holt and Company, 1996.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. 1. The Golden Age of St. Louis; 2. Beginnings and Endings; 3. The Rombauers After the War; 4. The Birth of Joy
- Part II. 5. Chronicles of Cookery 1; 6. Rombauer and Bobbs-Merrill: The Making of an Enmity; 7. Family Regroupings; 8. War Maneuvers
- Part III. 9. Chronicles of Cookery 2; 10. Indian Summer Interrupted; 11. The Last Battle
- Part IV. 12. Little Acorn and Wild Wealth; 13. Marion's Last Years
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "The Lives of Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker"--Dust jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-458) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- Kislak copy has inscribed message pasted on front free endpaper "[Sept 1999 in pencil] With best regards to Fritz Blank, who faces stoves and scientific issues with equal aplomb. Anne Mendelson".
- ISBN:
- 0805029044
- 9780805029048
- OCLC:
- 34412405
- Online:
- Publisher description
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.