Neiman Marcus Taste: Timeless American Recipes

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.

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.

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.

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.