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The Best from Helen Corbitt's Kitchens"
Edited by Patty Vineyard MacDonald
Foreword by Stanley Marcus
Description: Heirloom cookbook collectors will treasure this long-awaited new edition of Helen Corbitt's inimitable recipes! With little more than souffles and sass, Corbitt became a food legend during the 1950's and '60s as Director of Food Services for Neiman Marcus. Under her innovative leadership, the Dallas flagship store's Zodiac Room became one of the premier dining rooms in the nation, attracting celebrities, foreign dignitaries and then-President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In addition to hundreds of Corbitt's time-tested recipes, this cookbook contains never-before published
recipes from her personal archives. Readers will also enjoy the life story of this ebullient chef, described by a
contemporary as "a bouillabaisse of a person, part administrator, part hostess, part duchess and part Mother
Superior." Sales of this book benefit students at the University of Dallas and Skidmore College.
The Best from Helen Corbitt's Kitchens
Edited by Patty Vineyard MacDonald
Foreword by Stanley Marcus
Now you can savor Helen Corbitt's inimitable recipes all over again--or perhaps for the first time--through a brand new Helen
Corbitt cookbook, published by the University of North Texas Press. Patty MacDonald serves up more than five hundred favorite
recipes from Helen Corbitt's five cookbooks, published between 1957 and '78. Also included are a number of previously
unpublished recipes from Helen Corbitt's nationally acclaimed cooking schools.
Vintage photographs spice up a chapter on Helen's life written from interviews with Stanley Marcus, men and
women who attended Corbitt's cooking classes, her personal friends, and her employees at the Zodiac room, Neiman Marcus'
glamorous restaurant in the Dallas flagship store. Corbitt's memory still lives through an older generation of
admirers, who will want this book for themselves and as gifts for their offspring to keep
her precious culinary heritage alive. Good cooks of all ages will recognize the value of these recipes. Corbitt's recipes are
from an era of honest delectable food.
Stanley Marcus declared Helen Corbitt "the Balenciaga of Food."
Last year Texas Monthly declared her the Best Tastemaker of the Texas Century.
This 6x9" cloth-covered book contains 353 pages of heirloom recipes, as well as snippets of Corbitt's breezy commentary.
(ISBN 1-57441-076-8) $29.95.