Sunset’s Covers Through the Decades - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/19/dining/20SunsetSS.html