2006.10.31: October 31, 2006: Headlines: COS - Tunisia: Cooking: The Austin American-Statesman: RPCV Kathy Walz Duncan took "Joy of Cooking" to Tunisia
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2006.10.31: October 31, 2006: Headlines: COS - Tunisia: Cooking: The Austin American-Statesman: RPCV Kathy Walz Duncan took "Joy of Cooking" to Tunisia
RPCV Kathy Walz Duncan took "Joy of Cooking" to Tunisia
"When I joined the Peace Corps in 1976 they recommended we bring along a basic cookbook and recommended "Joy of Cooking" or Fannie Farmer. I bought "Joy," and it not only comforted me through two challenging years in Tunisia, but it also changed the way I approach everything I do in the kitchen ever since."
RPCV Kathy Walz Duncan took "Joy of Cooking" to Tunisia
Sharing the 'Joy'
Cookbook's 75th anniversary stirs Austinites' memories of recipes made through the years
By Kitty Crider
AMERICAN-STATESMAN FOOD EDITOR
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
As the "Joy of Cooking," which has sold 15.5 million volumes, celebrates its 75th anniversary this season, local cooks talk about what this practical tome has meant to them. For 84-year-old Mary Moneysmith, born and raised in Pennsylvania, it remains the only cookbook she has ever owned. For Tom Seekatz, University of Texas class of '58, the book turned him from a noncook to a passionate one. For Rebecca Wallace Ford, founder and former owner of Word of Mouth catering, it was the inspiration for a popular bar cookie for 20 years. Dozens of other readers who responded to the American-Statesman's request for "Joy" memories or influences told how the book has enlightened, provided humor (see the small-game section), sealed romances and served as historical looks into the food scene of the past, including how to deal with hard times. After all, the first edition of "The Joy of Cooking" was self-published in 1931 by Irma Rombauer after her husband committed suicide. During the Great Depression, many society wives suddenly found themselves without money to pay their kitchen staffs and began cooking for themselves, with Rombauer's guiding words. For the second edition, her daughter, Marion, joined the byline. (After the fourth edition, "The" was dropped from the title.) Both Irma and Marion are deceased now. Marion's son Ethan, who attended Le Cordon Bleu in Paris but learned to cook from his mom, has picked up the mantle for this latest edition, the seventh. (An outdoorsman, he also sells survival knives under his own name.)
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When I joined the Peace Corps in 1976 they recommended we bring along a basic cookbook and recommended "Joy of Cooking" or Fannie Farmer. I bought "Joy," and it not only comforted me through two challenging years in Tunisia, but it also changed the way I approach everything I do in the kitchen ever since.
We had no refrigerator and only a gas bottle, a two-burner hot plate, and something ingenious called a Palestinian oven that looked like a Bundt pan with a lid that sat on an inverted funnel on the stove.
My proudest achievement might be when I made "Joy's" lemon meringue pie in that thing! The pages that saw the most action are the ones that explain mayonnaise and vinaigrette. And I swear by their Blender Hollandaise. It's instantaneous, perfect and beautiful every time.
- Kathy Walz Duncan
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