Ina Garten

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688 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 27 Jan

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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus · Listen Again: Julia Gets Wise with Ina Garten · 27 Nov 2024 podcast

Yeah, the detail. Yeah. I follow recipes exactly, even my own. I measure everything. And then, because once you've spent the time to make sure it's absolutely perfect, why do you want to start throwing ingredients in there?

You want it to be exactly right. That's right. Especially as a baker.

My dad loved to have parties. Oh, he did? My mother hated it. Hated it. But it was my mother that had to give the parties. So it was always a struggle. It was always, I mean, she did parties because he liked his friends. But I think it was never a happy experience. And as soon as I got married, I was like, I remember being in our first house. It was a garden apartment in North Carolina. Yeah.

And I remember looking around going, I can do anything I want to do now. For the first time, I have nobody criticizing me, nobody telling me what to do. I can do whatever I want. And I just wanted to have parties. So I just started teaching myself how to cook. It was then. It was then, literally as soon as I got married.

Were you a food lover or did that really come? Not really. No. And I was never allowed to cook when I was a kid. Really? So I really didn't, I don't think I ever connected with it. I didn't know that it was something that would be fun to do at all. Well, I mean, I think when I was a kid, I didn't even know I would do anything.

So I thought, you know, I was kind of of the generation when when I was in college, I thought, well, I'm go to college and then I'll get married. And that's that. It was Jeffrey who's like who said to me, you need to figure out what to do with your life. He said, unless you do something, you're not going to be happy. And I was like, whoa, never, never even occurred to me.

I was 20, yeah. I was 20. So that was really the beginning of trying to figure out what I wanted to do.

And I totally credit him with that.

I gave some pretty bad parties in the beginning. No way. I don't believe it. Seriously. I remember one party in North Carolina. I decided to invite everybody for brunch, which I hate. But I invited everybody for brunch. And I thought, well, I'll make an omelet for everybody. It was like 20 people. It was the worst idea. And I don't know. You know, now I know how to make an omelet. It's not easy.

I don't know what the hell I made when I was 20. I was in the kitchen the whole time. Of course you were. And I think it took like a year to get over that and give parties. I think my mother had anxiety about the people. Yeah. As well as the food. I mean, today, I have to say, I'm not a comfortable cook.

If I'm giving a dinner party, I'm beside myself with anxiety that it's not going to come out right. Even after all this time. Even after all this time.

really great. I hadn't gone that far, but that's, no, I totally understand.

It's just the worst. It's the worst. One of the things that I'm aware of when I'm writing a cookbook is how hard it is to give a dinner party.

It's so much work. It's so difficult. And it's so much anxiety. Unless you're I don't know, unless you're a restaurant chef. It's so hard. That's why I want the recipes to be really easy. So you can just put the carrots on a sheet pan, olive oil, salt and pepper, throw it in the oven and hope you remember to take them out. Yeah.

I mean, considering that I do this professionally, I can't cook and talk at the same time. I mean, I do it on TV and that's okay. But if I know it has to come out perfectly, I mean, Jeffrey's always, you know, hanging out and talking to me. I'm like, Jeffrey, I can't talk. I just have to, because I'll forget to do something.

And especially if I really know the recipe, if it's something I make a lot, I'll always forget an ingredient if I'm not focusing on it. It's like my attention span isn't that good. So I have to really concentrate to get it right.

Don't offer to help. Just get out of my way. And it's really inhospitable to say, don't touch it.

Anyway, it's fine. You know what? At the end of the day, the only thing that's really important is you have time with your friends. Completely. I keep trying to remind myself, don't get obsessed about whether something's absolutely exactly the way you want it to be, as long as everybody's having a good time. And if they feel like we're anxious about it, It's going to it'll bomb.

It's going to ruin the evening.

So on top of being anxious about the meal, we have to look like we're not anxious, which makes you more anxious. Right. Of course.

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