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• Creme Brulee is the ultimate ‘guy’ dessert. Make it and he’ll follow you anywhere.

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• Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

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• I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It’s the only holiday I insist on making myself.

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• I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you’re having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional – old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

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• I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

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• I don’t like sitting at a table that’s too large, where everyone is too far apart. That’s a party killer.

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• 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.

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• I like almonds as a snack – keeps your energy up but doesn’t fill you up.

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• I love Alton Brown’s show ‘Good Eats,’ about the chemistry of food. It’s really thoughtful.

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• I measure everything, because I always think that if I’ve spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

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• I time everything. I’m a scientist at heart.

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• 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.

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• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

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• 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 moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

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• 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.

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• I’ve lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

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• I’ve taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

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• 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.

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• If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.

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• 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.

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Birth:	2nd February, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Chef, Television Presenter

About

Ina Rosenberg Garten was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is an American author, chef, host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa and a former staff member of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Known for designing recipes with an emphasis on fresh ingredients and time-saving tips, she has been noted by Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, and Patricia Wells for her cooking and home entertaining. Her culinary career began with her gourmet food store, Barefoot Contessa; Garten then expanded her activities to several best-selling cookbooks, magazine columns, self-branded convenience products, and a popular Food Network television show.

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