Famous Restaurant Recipes

Some thirty-five years ago, I lived in Kansas City. We frequently went to eat at Stephenson's Old Apple Farm Restaurant. I didn’t particularly like their food, but I loved going to eat there. They had huge kegs serving apple cider in the lobby while you waited for your table, and the frozen fruit salad that came as a standard side was out of this world. In fact, I frequently told my boyfriend that I was tempted to someday just have the frozen fruit salad and apple fritters, rather than an entrée. It never came to that, but I did search high and low for the recipe for the frozen fruit salad. I tried numerous cookbooks, but none of them came close to the flavor and consistency of Stephenson’s frozen fruit salad. Perhaps if the Internet had been around then, I could have found a copycat recipe, but back then your only hope of getting famous restaurant recipes was to get them direct from the restaurant. And Stephenson’s turned me down.

Researching now, I find that Stephenson’s closed in the spring of 2007 after a half-century of serving Kansas City. Such a shame! But though I can’t find their frozen fruit salad in the over 200 recipes of America's Secret Recipes, I’ve certainly found lots of other famous restaurant recipes therein. Master Chef Ron Douglas provides step-by-step instructions to prepare dishes you’d swear were served to you at B. B. King’s, Balducci, Bennigan, Benihana, the Brown Derby—and that’s only some of the B’s in the recipe treasury. With America's Secret Recipes, you’ll be able to prepare famous restaurant recipes at home and amaze your friends!