TRIUMVIRATE: Latin triumvirātus, from triumvirī, board of three [men]
Americans owe a lot to the following three people — without them our grocery stores and larders and pantries would still be filled with cans of baked beans and boxes of Jell-O.*
*David Kamp’s The United States of Arugula (2006) supports this thesis. The more the merrier, I always say.
CYNTHIA D. BERTELSEN 