Joy of Cooking: All About Party Foods & Drinks

by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker

Combines top party food recipes from the "Joy of Cooking" series with a previously unpublished drinks section, in a guide that includes the how-tos for such fare as nachos, Buffalo chicken wings, and eggnog. 50,000 first printing.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

Published August 27, 2002

About the author

In 1931, a St. Louis widow named Irma von Starkloff Rombauer took her life savings and self-published a book called The Joy of Cooking. Her daughter, Marion, tested recipes and made the illustrations, and they sold their mother-daughter project from Irma's apartment.