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One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.
Ina Garten
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Ina Garten
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 2
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Ina Rosenberg Garten
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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.
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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 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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When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.
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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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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.
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Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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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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All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.
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I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.
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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.
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Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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