How Helen Corbitt Changed Texas Food Forever—One Popover At A Time

How Helen Corbitt Changed Texas Food Forever—One Popover At A Time

Before Martha Stewart, there was Helen Corbitt.I remember the day I first walked into a Zodiac Room restaurant at the Neiman Marcus store in Atlanta. It was a glamorous world where wispy-figured models drifted through the dining room in expensive gowns out of reach on my newspaper salary. I briefly scanned the white-glove menu but already knew what I was ordering.First, popovers larger than life that overflowed the bread plate. Then, a demitasse…