Elaine Louie is assistant to the editor, House and Home section of The New York Times, and a contributor to the paper’s House & Home, Dining and Sunday Styles sections. She is the author of several books about food, entertaining and interior decoration including The Shun Lee Cookbook (Harper Collins, 2007) House Beautiful: Collections on Display (Hearst Books and Sterling Publishing, 2003), and Living with Textiles (Sterling Publishers and Mitchell Beazley, 2001). Elaine was the recipient of the 1995 James Beard Journalism Award for a series of articles on ethnic cuisine in New York City, which she wrote for the Living Section (now the Dining Section) of The New York Times.

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