While Julia Child’s image is gracing the big screen and Rachael Ray is winning Emmys – an American culinary great has slipped away quietly in Manhattan.
Sheila Gail Block Lukins, the co-creator of the Silver Palate, died in her home on Aug. 30 of brain cancer. She was only 66.
Not to take away from Alice Waters, who is credited with starting the quality, eat local American food movement from her Berkeley based Chez Panisse Restaurant in the 1970s, instead, Lukins, certainly could be Water’s East Coast bookend.
In the 1970s Lukins started a catering business from her apartment in the Dakota on Central Park West in Manhattan...
