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Ina Garten

American Author

Born: Feb 2, 1948

Dinner Food Home People Think You

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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa. Ina Garten

First Barefoot Bought Since Store Lived

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. Ina Garten

Myself Home Mother Secret Extreme Potatoes More Dirty Allowed Since Terms She Household Making Were Been Years Years Ago Left Up Very Than Where Bread Grew Little Rice Cookies Carbohydrates Ever Served Right

The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought. Ina Garten

Food You Better Thought Everything About Something Had Remembered Than Child Taste Maybe Want Flavor Milan Ever Thing

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. Ina Garten

Home People Coffee Dinner First Party Exhausted Past Meal Dessert Definitely Stay Hours Learned Course Bedtime Arrive Go Go Home Off Expected Elaborate Successfully Hardest Saturday Saturday Night Night Pull

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. Ina Garten

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. Ina Garten

Morning Me Gardening Garden Wake Up First Every Extravagance Pleasure Gives Look First Thing Wake Up The First Thing Much Thing

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special. Ina Garten

Love Food Something Take Make Ordinary Really Special

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it. Ina Garten

Important Party Everything Guests Out Carve Something Having Only Having Fun Absolutely Absolutely Everything Take Never Hostess Oven Most Most Important Thing Make Important Thing Very The Most Important The Only Thing Anything While Might Plan Cooked Organized Fun Thing

My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead. Ina Garten

If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing. Ina Garten

Try Party Meal Sweet Cocktail Think Recipes Generally Vegetable Feel Like Make Fish End Chicken Five Six Maybe Different Choose Fun Different Things Shrimp Thing Things Two

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere. Ina Garten

You Dessert Follow Guy He Make Ultimate Anywhere

In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork. Ina Garten

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up. Ina Garten

You Energy Like Snack Up Your Fill Keeps

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. Ina Garten

My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way. Ina Garten

Me Cooking World Mother Job Think Chaos Way Would Kitchen Never Had Allowed Studying Like Retrospect She Always Very Wanted Orderly View Cook Your Her

I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly. Ina Garten

Recipe Recipes Else Exactly Plum Follow Following Something Something Else Could Until Scientist Tart May Decide Turn Then Really Peach

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