Pam Anderson is a
cookbook author and writes the Blog, Three Many Cooks. Her daughters
join her on the Blog and in this book providing different types of
recipes. Pam started as a Southern cook. Her daughters, Maggy and
Sharon, have branched out into different types of cuisine, but the
family's love of food and using meal-times as a time of connection
flows through all three women.
The book is a series
of vignettes telling the stories of the three women both their love
of and difficulties with family and their experiments in a variety of
cooking techniques. I love the chapter on Pam's father and his desire
to make perfect lemon chicken. Another favorite was Sharon's chapter
on sisters. It's almost paradigmatic that sisters will be rivals, but
this chapter showed how beneath the conflict there's a great deal of
love.
My favorite
chapters, as a woman who has always watched her weight, were the
chapters on how Pam lost 40 pounds and Sharon's chapter on wishing
her thighs didn't touch, but realizing that with her DNA and love of
food it was probably a vain hope.
Each story is
followed by a recipe featured in that chapter. The recipes sound
wonderful. I loved reading them, but since I'm not much of a cook, I
will probably not try many of them.
If you love food and
family, you'll love this book. Meeting Pan and her daughters was like
meeting new friends. I was sad when the book ended.
I reviewed this book
for the Amazon Vine Program.
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