Both father and mother were devastated by this loss, and the Rombauers left their apartment to move in with the von Starkloffs. However, the baby was not strong and died in March of the following year. Short months after the Rombauers' marriage, the couple's first child, Roland, was born on July 27, 1900. Rombauer's income was limited, and the young couple lived in a small rented apartment with reportedly no domestic help, a state which Anne Mendelson noted in Stand Facing the Stove was "outlandish indeed for a bride of social position," adding that this story may have been an exaggeration. In 1897, the still-Irma von Starkloff met young lawyer Edgar Rombauer the two became engaged in early 1899 and married in a civil ceremony on October 14 of that year. Upon the family's return, Rombauer began taking art courses at local Washington University-although she did not formally pursue a degree-and spent time visiting family in Indianapolis. 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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