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Article: Sheila Lukins, entrepreneur, writer shook culinary world
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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LOS ANGELES - Sheila Lukins, an influential cookbook author and
Parade magazine food editor who demystified and helped popularize
gourmet cooking in America's home kitchens, has died. She was 66.
Ms. Lukins, who also operated a pioneering gourmet takeout shop,
died Sunday at her home in New York, Parade magazine said. She was
diagnosed with brain cancer three months ago.
Ms. Lukins's "The Silver Palate" is one of the top 10 best-
selling cookbooks of all time. She wrote it with her business
partner, Julee Rosso, in 1979, two years after they opened one of
the nation's first gourmet takeout shops, Silver Palate Restaurant,
in New York.
The food entrepreneurs benefited from perfect timing. ...