![]() In late summer 1894, the von Starkloffs returned to Missouri, settling in fashionable South St. During these years, she continued her somewhat sporadic formal education, being taught by governesses or at girls' schools in Bremen or, briefly, Lausanne. When Rombauer was twelve, her father took a government posting in Bremen, Germany, where the family remained for five years. During her early childhood, Rombauer and her elder sister, Elsa, were educated at home and later at local schools. ![]() Louis, which had been annexed by the city less than a decade before Rombauer's birth. The Starkloff family lived in Carondelet, a former suburb of St. Louis doctor, Max von Starkloff and his second wife Emma Kuhlmann, Rombauer was born October 30, 1877. The Joy of Cooking has been continuously in print since 1936. ![]() Irma von Starkloff Rombauer (1877–1962), a Missouri homemaker who developed The Joy of Cooking at the age of 54, is one of the most influential figures in American home cooking in the twentieth century. ![]()
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