Joy of Cooking 1943 Edition

The 1943 edition is known as the wartime edition of the Joy of Cooking. Irma's preface in this book holds the cooking spoon up as our mighty weapon to defend America's tradition of plenty. Pressure cookers, herb cultivation, culinary reference material and nutritional information were added to this revision. A section of recipes was also added that used substitutes for ingredients subject to wartime rationing, such as soybeans for meat. The 1943 edition of the Joy of Cooking was Julia Child's first cookbook ,a wedding gift from her mother-in-law. It was this JOY that taught her to cook.