It started as many very, very good things do–with Neiman Marcus. Being a proud resident of Dallas, I hold the iconic department store with a sincere and utmost reverence. One of my very first ventures as a new Dallasite was to make a pilgrimage of sorts to the historic and stately flagship location downtown, silently honoring the store that launched a thousand girls’ Christmas lists. From clothes to shoes to linens and home furnishings, everything’s a little bit more sparkly when it comes from NM.

NM Cookbook

But I digress. This post is not about goods, but rather food, of course! And as with all other things NM, the popovers served at their restaurant, Zodiac, are a league apart, making the average dinner roll seem like a peon amongst kings. Popovers, those crusty on the outside, eggy-yet-airy on the inside brown clouds toppling sky high are the stuff that dreams are made of. They are also surprisingly hard to make…or at least make well. I decided at Thanksgiving to surprise my family with perfect popovers. Sadly after many failed attempts, I wound up with tens of overly crusty popunders, nowhere near perfect and certainly nowhere near Neiman’s standards.

 


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