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Neiman Marcus Taste: Timeless American Recipes

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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.

This cookbook is a bit of a disappointment. Admittedly, I've only tried a couple of recipes in it so far, but that's largely because a) there really aren't a lot of recipes in this book and b) few of them sound very interesting (at least, compared to Bon Appetit's wonderful cookbook!). Many of the recipes are takes on old favorites, everything from coleslaw to minestrone to chicken a la king.

The book largely focuses on the career of head chef Helen Corbitt, who was brought on staff at NM's Dallas store in 1955. There are also many photos of Garvin's oft-noted cooking school of choice, the Culinary Institute of America, and flowery personal and professional reminiscences.

If you really love cooking and trying unusual recipes, this might be a good book to peruse in person before buying!

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.

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.

Neiman Marcus Taste is the most beautiful cookbook I own. Author and Chef Kevin Garvin does an amazing job of capturing the timeless recipes of Neiman Marcus. The recipes are easy for the every day cook to use. Garvin's narratives give the book a personal touch that makes the cookbook a pleasure to use.

I had to pay quite a bit for this, since it is out of print....but well worth it. beautiful photos and wonderful recipes.

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.

I cannot say enough wonderful things about this masterpiece. It has a plethora of recipes that will cause the mouth to water, the pupils to dilate with utter excitement. It can only best be described as a recipe book in its own class, the book that I am referring to, "The Neiman Marcus Cookbook."

This is a premiere cookbook that I bought as a gift and they are still ecstatic about having received.

I give this masterful book-five stars because the recipes are superb and the directions are easy to follow!

The next time you find yourself entertaining for family, work, or those wonderful holidays, then you will be the talk of the town and the envy of everyone seated at your dinner table asking for seconds.

You cannot go wrong with this book!

Buy it today as you will not be disappointed!