Sharon and I have always been close sisters, but there was a whole lot of yelling, screaming, door slamming, scratching and hitting in the early years before we got to be the best of friends. Honestly, when we were growing up, Sharon and I couldn’t stand each other half the
When Sharon and I were young, we spent many summers with our maternal grandparents, Granny and Papa, in Panama City, Florida. We loved going to their house for a lot of reasons, not least because they had cable television (we never did) and could watch Nickelodeon and such classics as
We’ve always been a family of Francophiles. Mom took lessons in her early 30s and shortly thereafter went on a culinary exchange program to France where she stayed with a lovely couple, Serge and Betty, who offered to host her. Twenty years on, they are the kind of friends who
Last weekend some friends and I stopped to have a quick lunch at a deli in Boston. I ordered honey maple turkey on a whole wheat roll with the works and instead of potato chips, I asked for a side of coleslaw. Almost as soon as the words escaped my
We launched Three Many Cooks at the beginning of October and have loved every minute of it—it’s made us better cooks, writers, photographers and businesswomen. We have loved it so much that we wanted to take it a bit further and literally put all three of us in the same
Family, friends and those who’ve been with us since the beginning will know that when Mom, Sharon and I launched ThreeManyCooks I was living in Malawi, Africa. It’s a bit of a long story, but after my first trip to Malawi (working for a small grassroots organization building a school)
On Friday Mom, Dad, Andy and I went to Hershey Park, Milton Hershey’s wonderland in the Pennsylvania town that bears his sweet name. Theme parks have never been our family’s “thing,” but going to Hershey is one of those things we have to do once a year. Like a lot
For the past two weeks I’ve been attending the United Nations’ Commission on Sustainable Development. I’ve listened to in-depth discussions of everything from pesticides and fertilizer to mining and waste management. All the latest updates tell us the frightening truth we already know, but simply refuse to act upon in
Mom and Dad have always kept things pretty equal in our family. With two daughters 26 months apart, I would say that’s pretty important. My grandmother has always said: “Can’t do for one what you can’t do for the other.” And for 99% of my life, I would say that
Ask anyone in England what the national dish is and they’ll tell you. It’s not sausages and mash or fish and chips. It’s Chicken Tikka Masala. When Andy and I got married and moved to the area where he grew up, we were regulars at a Nepalese restaurant called
