Irma S. Rombauer

Irma Rombauer

Born	October 30, 1877(1877-10-30)
Died	October 14, 1962(1962-10-14) (aged 84)

Irma Starkloff Rombauer (30 October 1877 – 14 October 1962) was a German-American author of The Joy of Cooking^[1]. It is one of the world's most-published cookbooks, having been in print continuously since 1936. She graduated from the all-girls preparatory school Mary Institute in 1901 and later attended Washington University in St. Louis. Rombauer privately published The Joy of Cooking in 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was illustrated by her daughter Marion Rombauer Becker, also a graduate of Mary Institute (1931) and at the time an art teacher at local private school John Burroughs School. The Rombauers self-published early editions of the book; it was picked up by a commercial printing house, the Bobbs-Merrill Company, in 1936.

In 1998, Irma Rombauer was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

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Biography by Rombauer's daughter. Part of a series of Notable American Unitarian biographies

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Name	Rombauer, Irma S.
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Date of birth	30 October 1877
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Date of death	14 October 1962
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^ [1]"When St. Louis housewife Irma von Starkloff Rombauer (1877-1962) self-published The Joy of Cooking in 1931, she was, at age 54, a total amateur in the kitchen. She sets Rombauer's German-American roots in the context of a thriving Midwestern immigrant community and also unravels both her and her daughter's tangled, acrimonious relationship with Bobbs-Merrill."