I would guess because of. A lot of women had to learn to cook. And in a way, Rombauer wrote it because of how the Depression had affected her; her husband had committed suicide. Apparently that wasn't directly caused by the crash--he'd had depressive episodes in the past--but Irma was left in straitened circumstances, and so decided to write a cookbook.
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