Julee Rosso
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Julee Rosso is an American
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 cook and food writer
Food writing
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. In 1977 she and Sheila Lukins
Sheila Lukins
Sheila Lukins , was an American cook and food writer. She was most famous as the co-author, with Julee Rosso, of the The Silver Palate series of cookbooks, and The New Basics Cookbook, a very popular set of food guides which introduced many Americans to French, Southern and Eastern European cooking...

 opened and ran a gourmet food shop in New York City
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 called The Silver Palate. In the 1980s they wrote, with Michael McLaughlin
Michael McLaughlin
Michael McLaughlin was, for a time, a leading figure on the British far right.Born in Liverpool, he was the son of an Irish republican and socialist who was a veteran of the International Brigades....

, The Silver Palate Cookbook, The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, and others. A 25th Anniversary update of the Silver Palate Cookbook was published in 2007.

"She changed the way America eats." - New York Newsday

Early life

Julee Rosso graduated from Michigan State where she was a member of the Delta Delta chapter of Alpha Phi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Phi International Women's Fraternity was founded at Syracuse University on September 18, 1872. Alpha Phi currently has 152 active chapters and over 200,000 initiated members. Its celebrated Founders' Day is October 10. It was the third Greek-letter organization founded for women. In Alpha...

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with Sheila Lukins

  • The Silver Palate Cookbook, 1979
  • The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, 1984 (Winner, James Beard
    James Beard
    James Andrew Beard was an American chef and food writer. The central figure in the story of the establishment of a gourmet American food identity, Beard was an eccentric personality who brought French cooking to the American middle and upper classes in the 1950s...

    award "Entertaining" in 1986 http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/awards.php?year=1986&category=1#118)
  • The New Basics Cookbook, 1989
  • Silver Palate Desserts', 1995

By Julee Rosso

  • Great Good Food, 1993
  • Fresh Start, 1996
  • Fresh Start for Meat & Fish , 1997
  • Fresh Start for Vegetables, 1997
  • Fresh Start for Grains & Pasta, 1997
  • Fresh Start for Poultry, 1997
  • Fresh Start for Soup, 1997
  • Fresh Start for Fruit
  • Fresh Start - Special Markets, 1996
  • Fresh Start : Low fat Food and Menus Day to Day

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