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Food is Still Our Language–A Three Many Cooks Update

It’s been awhile since you’ve heard from Maggy, Sharon, and me. Four years it’s been. 2015. Since then, what’s happened in your lives and in the lives of Three Many Cooks?  Like many of you, we’ve experienced joy and sadness at both ends of life’s spectrum, helping midwife new ones into our family and gently […]

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Pork Stew with Peppers and Olives

The summer of 1987 when I stepped into Cook’s Magazine’s kitchen as the new test cook, their November/December issue was nearly off to the printer. I helped with a few photo shoots and tested a few stray recipes, but January/February 1988 was my first full issue. An article entitled A Bistro-Style Dinner For 8 was first […]

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Spicy Ginger Roast Turkey With Sweet and Sour Gravy

We don’t do paid posts on Three Many Cooks, but we will happily use our platform to get the word out about books or products we believe in. Tomorrow we are doing a Satellite Media Tour for two companies we love: Gourmet Garden, whose new lightly dried herbs we really enjoy and Anolon, whose cookware impresses us a […]

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Pumpkin Corn Sticks

After moving up from Atlanta and moving in with David and me, Sharon and Anthony finally found the perfect apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. For nearly four months we had lived together in as much harmony as a family of four, a dog, a cat (and baby Dashiell, Maggy, and Andy as regulars) can manage. […]

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A New Bar Nut (Finally!)

Ever since I discovered the rosemary-scented Union Square Bar Nut recipe back in the 1990s, it’s been our family’s signature nibble. Occasionally we’ll buy a container of roasted salted peanuts, pistachios, or Marcona almonds, but when we sit down for a glass of wine or cocktail, there’s likely an accompanying bowl of Union Square Bar […]

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Peanut Butter and Jam Bars

When Mom died back in March something withered in me too. For the first time since my culinary curiosity sparked in 1978, I lost interest in food, in cooking, in writing—blogging too. I still enjoyed the table, sharing a good meal with family and friends, but I took no pleasure in dreaming up a dish, […]

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The Red-Throated Loon

How Anthony Got His Groove Back Guest post by Anthony Damelio, Sharon’s husband and family cocktail guru. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Sharon and I spent much of the winter and early spring dedicated to important work in our careers. As fulfilling as that was, we hadn’t entertained […]

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Three Many Cooks in OXO’s Kitchen

My first job was working at a small cookware store a few miles from home. From cookie cutters to paring knives, peppermills to copper pots, The Cookery Ware Shop had everything! The wall next to the cash register covered – top to bottom – with a new line from a company I had never heard […]

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Curried Coconut Soup with Spinach and Peas

It’s been three months since Dashiell was born. The morning after, I remember being surprised by how unpregnant I looked. I thought it’d be at least another month before my disconnected stomach muscles found their way back together, but my pre-pregnancy silhouette had returned practically overnight. I felt really good. During my pregnancy I had gained […]

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The Mexihattan

Another guest post by Sharon’s husband and our family’s cocktail aficionado, Anthony Damelio. We often play this game, where I just make a cocktail and bring it over to Sharon without telling her any of the ingredients I’m working with. Most of the time, this is straightforward: too much of this, not enough of that, […]

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