Ina Garten
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688 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 27 Jan
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One for me, one for you.
Oh, my God. I love it. I love it. That may have just been canceled.
If you loved this episode of Be My Guest, the podcast, with me, Ina Garten, please make sure to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. It would mean so much to me. Thanks. Cheers.
Ina Garten.
Hi. Hello.
Nice to see you. I hear you all the time. May I hug you? I insist. Oh, I'm so happy to see you, Michael. Thank you so much for coming.
Welcome to the barn.
I live next door, and my commute is on the grass. It's 90 feet.
I love burgundy. Oh, this is gorgeous. Thank you so much.
That's not what I do.
Well, it's what I love to do because my whole goal in life is to connect with people I love. And it doesn't happen easily. When you have that connection, you feel like you're taking care of people and they're taking care of you. And God knows we need that.
Well, you know, in my memoir I tell the story that my mother was very cold. I think she just wasn't capable of being warm. So I think I never felt connected to her at all. At all? At all. At all.
I think I was really hungry for that in my life. And so that's what I try and do with my friends. I think entertaining for me is really about bringing people together and making them part of my family.
I do. And it was a total disaster. Jeffrey and I had just gotten married. He was in the military. And I decided to have a party for 20 people. Bad idea.
20 people. And they didn't know each other. And for some reason, I decided I was going to make an omelet for everybody. Now, I barely know how to make an omelet now. I mean, I kind of do, but I certainly didn't know how to make an omelet then. And what I know now is you have to make them one at a time. Yeah. So I spent the entire time in the kitchen making omelets.
So poor Jeffrey was in the living room with 20 people trying to keep the conversation going.
It was like I was on a cruise ship. I was the chef. And we didn't have a table for 20 people, so there were chairs in the living room that were just in a big circle, and everybody had a plate and an omelet on their lap, but not at the same time.
I think I was so busy making omelets, I didn't even think about it until afterwards. And I knew it was a quiet party. And with 20 people, you can't connect with them. Mm-hmm.
I think by the time Jeffrey and I got to Washington, I had been to France, and I was really interested in the food. And I started working my way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. And so my first parties were very elaborate affairs. You know, they were fancy. It was fancy food. And so I picked the most complicated things. Which is how I taught myself how to cook.
So I'm glad I did. And then one day we were invited to somebody's house for dinner. It was a guy. And I said to Jeffrey, oh, this is going to be a disaster because no men cooked in the 70s. I mean, they just didn't. And we went there and he served a simple filet of beef that was roasted, simple vegetables. It was an absolutely simple, elegant meal. And I remember thinking to myself, this is it.
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