What was the nature of Helens relationship with James Beard?
Helen and James Beard were close friends. They wrote each other at least twice a week until Helen’s untimely death discussing culinary matters and gossip, and personal matters. Their letters have been published in a book called James Beard: Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles: Letters To Helen Evans Brown. James Beard’s dedication to American Cookery reads: “This book is dedicated to my favorite great ladies of the American kitchen: Eliza Leslie, Mrs. T.J. Crowen, Sarah Tyson Rorer, Fannie Merritt Farmer, Irma Rombauer, Helen Evans Brown, June Platt.
