Sunset’s Covers Through the Decades – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
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Sunset magazine, the regional publication that Southern Pacific Railroad executives began in 1898 to lure Easterners to the untamed West, helped chronicle — and create — the casual California cuisine that came before Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck. What follows are covers from the magazine over the years.