Ina Garten Quotes
- 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.
- You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while…
- Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
- I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
- I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
- I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
- I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
- Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.
- 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 worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more…
- I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
- All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.
- Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.
- Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.
- I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
- 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…
- Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.
- I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
- People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
- One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.