Ina Garten

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The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Ina Garten Share the Secrets to a Successful Life · 24 Dec 2024 podcast

It turned out to be a strip club. I had no idea. Yes, yes, yes. That job lasted a week.

Yeah. My therapist actually described it as a lot of people stand on the side of the pond convincing themselves there's something, you know, that pond is dangerous, that bad things are in that pond. But you can't figure out what you want to do until you jump into the pond. And then when you're in the pond, you figure out where the stream is, where the stream is carrying you along.

If you're knocking against the riverbanks, then you're not in the right stream. But if the stream is just carrying you along, that's the right stream for you. And I think that's why we have to try different things. It's not like I want to be a lawyer, I want to be a doctor. You just try different things and see which one works and which one feels good.

exciting and that where you feel like, you know, it's carrying you along. And I think that's what I've been able to find at each point in my life. And it's just been, it's just been amazing.

Well, I've really created it since then because I have none from my childhood. I mean, nobody would say broiled chicken and canned vegetables. That's right.

Yes.

I think that I probably was always craving that. And I think in a funny way, if when you're a child, I mean, this wasn't me, but you're forbidden candy. All you want is candy. Yes, yes. So I think since we were forbidden things that were delicious and felt good, you know, if I asked my mother for something, you know, for a cookie, she would just go, oh, just to eat an apple.

She was always annoyed. Wow. I was like, nobody thinks that an apple is an appropriate substitution for a cookie. Yes. So I think I as soon as I got married, I remember getting Craig Claiborne's The New York Times cookbook and I was making challah. I was making mashed potatoes. I was making stews and chili and things that were just satisfying.

And, you know, I think one of the things in my books is that my first requirement is, does the title tell you what it is? It's lemon chicken with orzo. You think, well, that sounds good. That's a good combination. And that sounds like it would be satisfying to eat. So my first requirement when I'm writing a recipe is, what is the title?

And then the second one is, what does the photograph look like?

It is. I mean, after I finish a book, I think my team is always like, you're going to start right away. I'll make a list of 50 ideas of recipes that I want to work on. And every morning I'll get up and think or at night I'll decide which one I'm going to do tomorrow. So I have the ingredients for it. And I'll just go, you know, it's a it's a it's a hot summer day.

And, you know, I'm going to make a salad or I'm going to make some grilled thing. Or if it's a cold winter day, I'll make, you know, I feel like I'm making like some kind of a soup or stew. A stew. Yes. Something off the list and just start working on it.

Yes, it feels... And also, I'm very conscious of... The person who's reading the book, it's very important to me, kind of the user experience. Like, is somebody going to want to make this? And then I literally give the recipe to my team and I just say, can I watch you make this? So I see if they're going to have any problems making it. Do they have any questions about the text?

Are they going to cut the carrots the right way? I'm really conscious that I want somebody at home using the book to feel good about it and to know that they've got the recipe right.

I do, but they've gotten smaller and smaller. Really? I used to like to have big parties, but now I like really small ones, like six people around a round table. What kind of parties do you like to give? I like six to eight.

Yes. I'd rather do like two parties of six than one party of 12. Then you really can connect with each other. Absolutely. Absolutely. Which is, at the end of the day, why we give parties?

Yes, I do. Actually, it's funny. I've developed this over the years. If I know all the guests, I can do this in advance. But if somebody brings a guest, you know, bring somebody and I don't know them, I always assess who the two most talkative people in the group are. And I make sure they're seated. I always have a round table. So I have them seated at opposite sides of the table.

Because if the two talkative people are sitting next to each other, they end up talking to each other and everybody else is left out. But if the talkative people are opposite each other and the quieter people on the other quadrant, everybody's part of the same party. That is a good idea. And even if it's a rectangular, does that sound right to you?

Yes. Yeah. So I always kind of choreograph the table where people sit by that.

It's a very small empire. Yes. I mean, my team is like the three of us. We meet at my office every day and we decide what we're all going to do. What I like is very hands-on. I don't like doing a million different things and not feeling like I'm doing them well. I like doing... one thing at a time. I like working on recipes and writing books and then doing TV and then going back to writing books.

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