RIP Sheila Lukins

In a sad note, Sheila Lukins, co-author of The Silver Palate, has passed away. A hugely-influential figure whose book changed American ideas about food, food preparation and our notion of what to expect from restaurants and recipes at home, died from brain cancer. She was 66.

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