![]() ![]() Rosso, the businesswoman, and Lukins, the chef, partnered in 1977 to open a gourmet shop, the Silver Palate on Columbus Avenue, just a block from Lukins’ home in the Dakota apartment building. ![]() She and Rosso met after Rosso’s boyfriend at the time hired Lukins for such a party. Lukins’ business, the Other Woman Catering Company, was started with the idea of cooking for New York bachelors who wanted to entertain but needed someone to do the cooking. The magic created by “The Silver Palate” began with a chance friendship between Rosso, a single New York marketing executive, and Sheila Lukins, a married mother of two who had started a catering company out of her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. “The thing I really take credit for is arugula,” said Julee Rosso, one of the two women behind the cookbook. The book, marking its 35th anniversary this year with more than 2.5 million copies sold, added products such as blueberry chutney and raspberry sauce to our food repertoire. ![]() In the spring of 1982, “The Silver Palate Cookbook” hit bookstore shelves with recipes that established a foundation for an emerging American cuisine. ![]()
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