 During the mid-1990s, publisher Simon & Schuster, which owns the "Joy of Cooking"'s copyrights, hired influential cookbook editor Maria Guarnaschelli, formerly of William Morrow, and editor of works by Jeff Smith and others.Guarnaschelli, supervised by Rombauer's grandson Ethan Becker, managed the creation of the edition of 1997, published by Simon & Schuster's Charles Scribner's Sons division.The new edition kept the concise style of its predecessors, but it eliminated the conversational first-person narration.