Lillian Kayte

Lily (Lillian) Kayte began her career as a food writer in 1975 while teaching French Cuisine through the Continuing Education Department,

University of Vermont at Burlington.

After relocating to Atlanta in 1977 she settled down to a writer’s life and for the next 15 years wrote for newspapers including the Atlanta Journal Constitution and as the Lifestyle Editor of the Marietta Daily Journal, the Dalton Citizen, and Daily Courier in Dalton Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. At this time, she was also a Contributing Editor for Creative Loafing and Common Cents newspapers in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1990 she moved to Florida and for the next five years served as the restaurant critic for The Gainesville Sun (a New York Times publication), also writing their food and feature stories. During this time she was a write-for-hire writer and recipe developer for AARP Modern Maturity Magazine, Vegetarian Times Magazine, Veggie Life Magazine, Gainesville Today Magazine and Ocala Today Magazine.

She developed all the recipes and wrote the text for The Vegetarian Beginner’s Guide (Macmillan, 1994), Developed 30 recipes for The Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook (Macmillan, 1994), numerous articles with recipes for Pillsbury Fast and Healthy Cookbook Series (General Mills) co-authored Vegetarian Express Cookbook (Little Brown, 1995) and was a syndicated columnist for the New York Times.

Three years ago she ventured into the world of novels with the publication of Vitebskii, a story that revolves around the turmoil which accompanied the 19th and 20th century Russia from a monarchy to the Bolshevik imperative called Communism. It’s a family history as well, taking the reader from a gracious comfortable lifestyle in Vitebsk to a grimy crowded ghetto of a big American city.

After moving to Georgia, Kayte wrote Sophie's Kitchen, a tribute book honoring her mother and her unique food philosophy with Old World recipes from another time and place now lost in the mists of time, a time when cooking came from great storehouses of memory, rather than from books.

Eleven Degrees Above Zero is her latest book. It's an account and profile of sociopaths and how they trap their victims, a blueprint which can show the way out of the trap to freedom and peace and redemption. It even provides a checklist to help identify the cause as well as see through the veil of deception that is the hallmark of the classic sociopath.