Even during her childhood days in Ulm, Germany, Annemarie Huste demonstrated that she was to the skillet born. By the time she was 20, she had served in half a dozen European kitchens, worked her way to New York, and before she knew it, had been taken on by Billy Rose as housekeeper-cook at $250 a week. "She had very little in the way of references," says the agent who sent her, "but she was very pretty and I thought he'd give her a chance. He told me she was a very good cook."
Then two years ago, after Billy...
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