In the 1980s she and Rosso wrote, with Michael McLaughlin, The Silver Palate Cookbook, which broke cookbook records by selling 250,000 copies in its first year and went on to sell as of 2009 2.5-million copies, followed by The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, and others. Lukins drew the illustrations for all the Silver Palate cookbooks and her solo cookbooks.
In the 1980s she and Rosso collaborated with Michael McLaughlin on The Silver Palate Cookbook, which shattered cookbook records by selling 250,000 copies in its first year and went on to sell 2.5 million copies as of 2009, followed by The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, and other titles. Lukins created the illustrations for all her cookbooks, including those from The Silver Palate series.