Helen Corbitt's Cookbook: by the Director of Neiman-Marcus

Helen Corbitt's Cookbook: by the Director of Neiman-Marcus Restaurants

Stanley Marcus declared Helen Corbitt "the Balenciaga of Food." Earl Wilson described her simply as "the best cook in Texas." Lyndon B. Johnson loved her stroganoff and wished she would accompany him-and Lady Bird-to the White House to run the dining room.Helen Corbitt is to American cuisine what Julia Child is to French. Corbitt's genius was in presentations of new and unusual flavor combinations, colors, and even serving temperatures. She insisted on the finest, freshest ingredients, served with impeccable style. As Director of Food Services for Neiman Marcus, she traveled widely, bringing recipes back to tantalize Texans' tastebuds. An Irish red-head born in New York and raised with Edwardian rules and grace, Corbitt lassoed appetites across Texas when she moved there in 1931 from her job as dietitian at Cornell Medical Center in New York City to manage the tea room at the University of Texas. She was lured to the Houston Country Club before operating the tearoom at Joske's department store in Houston and had started her own catering business when the Driskill Hotel called her back to Austin. Stanley Marcus "courted" her for eight years until she finally accepted his offer to direct his Dallas store's lunchtime oasis. She then dazzled celebrities and dignitaries who flocked to the famed Zodiac Room at Neiman Marcus for tantalizing cuisine.The Dallas Morning News columnist Dick Hitt wrote that Corbitt was "a no-nonsense woman . . . capable of humor, who often . . . used it as she would a pungent spice: for hinting at the substance of a point . . . a curious combination of elegance and gusto, impatience and painstaking perfectionism, femininity and jaunty zest . . . subtle and imperious, ebullient and unerringly correct. . . . She was a bouillabaisse of a person, part administrator, part hostess, part duchess and part Mother Superior."
Country USA
Manufacturer Houghton Mifflin
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Houghton Mifflin
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Helen Corbitt's Cookbook: by the Director of Neiman-Marcus Restaurants

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