The Joy of Cooking 1st Edition
Now you can get a hardcover facsimile of the 1st edition (1931) of The Joy of Cooking (formerly known as The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat). Here’s a history of the various editions of Joy:
[The] most popular asset of the 1936 edition was undoubtedly its revolutionary recipe-form. Bold type carried ingredients in a chronological framework of light-face. You had only to run your eye down the bold items to see if you had suitable ingredients on hand. And you couldn’t go wrong in procedure if you followed the sequence of preparation in light-face.