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Ina Garten Biography

Ina Rosenberg Garten (/ˈaɪnə/ EYE-nə; born February 2, 1948) is an American author and host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and a former staff member of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.

Day, Get Up, Good, Good Times, Home, Time

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Arrested, Brownies, Butter, Should, Tries, Trying

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

Career, Careers, Over It, Professional, Professional Career, Thought

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.

Light, Pork, Summer, Things, Warm, Winter

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.

Child, Children, Flavor, Milan, Thought, Want

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.

Drink, Friends, Fun, Party, Smile, Start

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Cookbook, Knocks, Simply

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.

Ahead, Fall, Invite, Like, Two, Winter

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?

Pot, Recipes, Things, Thinking, Time, Want

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

Anywhere, Dessert, Guy, Ultimate, Wedding

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Cheese, Comfort, Grilled, Meals, Tomato, Tomatoes

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Fun, Important, Money, Stuff, Work Out, Works

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

Course, Ems, Guilty, Hard, Sweat, Thinking

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.

Cooking, Flavor, Flavors, Possible, Use

The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

Days, Decision, Dishes, Everything, Make Or Break, Meals

You can get bogged down in a recipe that's got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to make. And then you realize, you've just got one dish. For Thanksgiving, you want an abundance of choices, and so you want dishes that you can put together really quickly, but that doesn't mean less flavor.

Choices, Flavor, Mean, Takes, Together

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!

Fun, Hamptons, House, Office, Store, White

They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

Cooking, Garden, Gardeners, Look, People

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.

Follow, Peaches, Plums, Recipe, Recipes

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.

Dirty, Grew, Home, Mother, Secret

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