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Ina Garten and The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook provide the perfect recipe for hosting parties that are easy and fun for everyone--including the cook. For more than twenty years Ina Garten's, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been turning out extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina Garten, to share the secrets of her store. Finally, the energy and style that make show more Barefoot Contessa such a special place are shown here, with dozens of recipes and more than 160 breathtaking photographs, in The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. Ina's most popular recipes use familiar ingredients and yield amazing results. Her Pan-Fried Onion Dip is the real thing, with slowly caramelized onions and fresh sour cream. Tomato soup is created from oven-roasted tomatoes and fresh basil to intensify the flavors. Meat loaf is as good as your grandmother's, but it's healthier because it's made with ground turkey and fresh herbs. The light and flaky Maple-Oatmeal Scones are baked with rolled oats, whole wheat, and real maple syrup. Now these and other famous Barefoot Contessa recipes can be prepared at home. Ina says that before she owned a specialty food store she often spent a week making dinner for six friends. Her experience at Barefoot Contessa has given her hundreds of ideas for creating wonderful parties in a few hours. And they're all in this book. Crab Cakes with Rémoulade Sauce can be stored overnight in the refrigerator and sautéed just before the guests arrive. Cheddar Corn Chowder can be made days ahead, reheated, and served with a salad and bread for a delicious autumn lunch. The ingredients for Grilled Salmon Salad can all be prepared ahead and tossed together before serving. The batter for the Raspberry Corn Muffins can be mixed a day before and popped into the oven just before breakfast. Ina Garten teaches us how to entertain with style, simplicity, and a relaxed sense of fun. There are notes throughout the book for giving cocktail parties, lunches, and dinner parties where everything is done before the guests arrive. And there are easy instructions for creating gorgeous party platters that don't even require you to cook! show lessTags
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Great cookbook, well written! I am inspired to read the others and to try her take on some classics! UPDATE: I've made 2 of the dishes, both very easy, delicious, and new family favorites!
This is my favorite cookbook of hers. The sun-dried tomato dip, roasted eggplant spread and hummus are fabulous.
Still my favorite cookbook of hers, and I have all of them. There are classic, easy recipes that make you look like you've slaved over them for hours.
Cute name, cute gimmick, but her recipes are outlandish and not appealing.
Ina Garten is one of my favorite chefs on Food Network, though I do not make many of her recipes--too fattening and too much baking!
wow. nice book.
The roast chicken is by far the most used recipe from this book, shared with many friends and family.
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Ina Garten is a regular columnist in O, The Oprah Magazine, and appears on the Today show. Ina lives in East Hampton, New York, and Southport, Connecticut. Ina Garten was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 2, 1948. She studied economics at Syracuse University and received a MBA at George Washington University. She worked in the White House show more Office of Management and Budget. In 1978, she left her job and bought a specialty food store in the Hamptons called Barefoot Contessa. She sold the store in 1996 and went on to write The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook in 1999. Her other cookbooks include Barefoot in Paris, Barefoot Contessa at Home, Barefoot Contessa Foolproof, and Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. She also writes columns for House Beautiful, Martha Stewart Living, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She has been the host of the Food Network's Barefoot Contessa program since 2002. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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