Neiman Marcus Taste: Timeless American Recipes

by Kevin Garvin and John Harrisson

Book Overview

Neiman Marcus first opened its doors to shoppers in 1907, and since then it has been a fixture of American elegance and style. Now Neiman Marcus opens another door, this time to their acclaimed kitchens, with their 100th anniversary cookbook-a retrospective of the timeless, legendary dishes that have satisfied generations of Americans over the past fifty years. The Zodiac, Neiman Marcus's first restaurant, debuted in the company's Dallas flagship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307394352
• ISBN13: 9780307394354
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.9" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A COOKBOOK, NOT A COFFEE TABLE BOOK

It's attractive enough to be a coffee table book, but it's not. It's a solid cookbook with good, sometimes simple classic American recipes. To take one section, soups, there are recipes for tomato minestrone, New England fish chowder, cheese and ale soup, turkey soup, plus the best creamed pea soup I've ever tasted, very rich but very, very good: County Mayo Pea Soup. I've tried the recipe for Deviled Pecans -again good--and many of the salad and sandwich recipes deserve trying soon. I don't greatly like chicken drumsticks but, as the author of this attractive cookbook writes, no American cookbook would be complete without a recipe for fried chicken. I'll try it .... Some time. There are recipes for chicken a la king, turkey Tetrazini, creamy rice pudding, some scrumptious looking cookies, a hot tea and whiskey toddy. I'll be cooking my way through this book for a long time. All of the recipes are well laid out, easy to read and follow. The photographs of the finished products make my mouth water. Neiman Marcus's restaurants are known for good food. I can see why after reading this cookbook.

Delightful

This beautiful cookbook is such a treat to use and to peruse. It is especially a joy to see the recipes of Helen Corbitt modernized, and yet retaining their original flare and unique qualities. My thanks to Kevin and John.

Neiman Marcus Taste

Garvin is a CIA graduate and certainly qualified by education and years of experience in fine restaurants to write such a book. His descriptions of the recipes are clear and they make it easy for the home cook to prepare them. The pictures enhance the food appeal.

Deliciously elegant

Delicious recipes, usually simple ingredients with a sophisticated twist. Macaroni and cheese with lobster tail. Homey and delicious while just out of the ordinary ingredient. Well written, mouth watering illustrations. The cinnamon roll recipe is the best I have ever used.