I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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Ina Garten
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About Ina Garten
Ina Rosenberg Garten is an American television cook and author. She is host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa and was formerly a staff member of the Office of Management and Budget. Among her dishes are Perfect Roast Chicken, Weeknight Bolognese, French Apple Tart, and a simplified version of beef bourguignon. Her culinary career began with her gourmet food store, Barefoot Contessa; Garten then expanded her activities to many best-selling cookbooks, magazine columns, and a popular F…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Ina GartenIf you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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.
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.
I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and mo…
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 though…
I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
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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.