Robert Steinberg, 61, a physician who helped revolutionize America's appreciation of fine chocolate after launching a San Francisco area company that produces some of the best chocolate in the country, died Sept. 17 in San Francisco. He had lymphatic cancer.
Steinberg co-founded Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker in 1996. "He changed chocolate from being seen as a mere sweet candy to having the status of a complex and interesting food. A new age of chocolate was started in this country with that company," said Alice Medrich, a cookbook author known for her chocolate expertise.
Osborne Elliott, 83, a former Newsweek editor widely credited with making the magazine competitive with archrival Time, died Sunday in New York of complications from cancer. Known as Oz, he was editor from 1961 to 1976. Newsweek editor Jon Meacham called Elliott "the architect of the modern Newsweek." He said Elliott's vision and passion "made the magazine into a global force."
news services
