Spasenija Pata Marković dating history

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Spasenija Pata Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Спасенија Пата Марковић; Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 31 December 1881 - Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1974) was a Serbian cookbook author. She is considered the author of the most extensive collection of culinary recipes written in Serbia. This cookbook was published in 1939 under the title My Cookbook, and was later better known as Pata's Cookbook. In 1956, the publishing house Narodna knjiga published Veliki narodni kuvar based on her original cookbook, which by that time had about 20 editions. The introduction to this new edition reads: "This book is based on the famous book My Cookbook, which was published by the newspaper Politika before the war, and edited by Spasenija Pata Marković." The "Great National Cookbook" contains all the recipes of the pre-war edition of the mentioned book, with some other tips.