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“I’d get off work and then go to her house and cook dinner,” she said.
It made for long, exhausting days.
“I kept thinking that if I had something like Nippy’s, that offered good home-cooked food, I wouldn’t have had to do all that.”
By Nippy’s, she means Nippy’s Soul Food Restaurant, currently located at 17th and Queen streets in Wilmington. She opened the business in 2018 with her brother, William Bordeaux, and husband, Russell Corbett.
Named in honor of her mother, Corbett wanted to provide other families in the community those same recipes that she made with love for years oxtails, turkey wings, fish and grits, liver and onions.