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, that's good. Everything goes in the washing machine. It does? Yeah, I just love these shirts. I got a shirt from Talbots that I just loved, and I asked if they could make it for me in different fabrics. And they said, sure. Wow. And so I have them in corduroy for the winter and I have them in denim chambray for the summer.

And I know I can put it on and feel comfortable and feel like it looks put together. It does. It does? Oh, good.

I mean, I wouldn't say I'm confident about everything, but I think professionally I feel very confident that I know what I want and anything less than that is not okay with me.

And I've really pushed through a lot of times where a publisher or a TV producer will disagree with me. And I'm just like, no, this is the way I'm going to do it. And I feel that way about my clothes, too. I'm sure that they would like me to change my outfit all the time. That's not who I am. And where does that come from, Ina? I don't know. I really don't.

Because when I was a kid, I was always criticized for everything. So I think it was just internal. I have this sense of who I am, and that's who I am. And I'm perfectly comfortable with it. And if you don't like it, that's okay. Okay. It's not your problem. Turn off the TV. Right. Exactly.

Maybe it was. You know? Yeah. We never know whether it's in the DNA or whether it's developed. But I love to listen to everybody's opinion.

And then choose what I want to do. And once I've made that decision, I'm good to go. Are you the same way?

Oh, I totally do, yeah.

Isn't that interesting? Yeah. Well, I mean, whatever you're doing, keep doing it because you're totally beloved.

For whatever you do.

It does. You know, it's funny. I was just telling somebody recently, people think that being in a marriage is confining in some way, but I find it's just the opposite. It's like a big anchor, like a stake in the middle of my life. And it actually gives me more freedom because I know I will always come back to that stake, to that. It's solid. It's supportive. It's positive.

Well, I think it's different now. When we lived in Washington, it was much more traditional. I mean, it was the 70s. And he worked in the State Department. He worked for Kissinger. and Secretary of State Vance. And I worked in OMB. It was always expected that I was going to cook dinner. They were kind of roles that we played. And I've increasingly disliked those roles.

And so I think my move to buy a specialty food store and have my own business was really breaking out of those roles. So there was a little bit of a time where we had to figure that out. But he just, he's so intuitive and so respectful of me and so encouraging me to, to do what I want to do that it wasn't a terrible, you know, we worked it out. Right. And I think he's freer and I'm freer.

So it's, it's now, it became more of a partnership rather than like traditional roles. Yes. There was a time in our life where he was offered to live in Tokyo for a year. And I had just signed a lease for a store in East Hampton. And we were like, what are we going to do? And he said, you know what? Let's both do what we want to do because we can't choose.

If we get to do what I want to do, you'll resent it. And if I don't get to do that and I have to stay in East Hampton, then I'll resent it. So let's just do it. Let's do it for a while and see if anybody's unhappy, we'll make a change. And? It worked out fine. Actually, after a year, I wrote to him and I said, you know, I think you need to come home because it's not that I'm miserable.

I'm just fine. And I think it's a bad idea.

No, it wasn't a struggle at all. I had no interest in having children. None? I just had a terrible childhood, and it was nothing I wanted to recreate. I think now looking back, I might say I see my friends with their children, and I understand why.

But when I was 20, I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

I think Jeffrey would have been a great parent. He would have really loved having children. But he wanted me to be happy and it was okay with him.

Yeah. I don't know where that came from. I really don't. But I just, I don't know where that certainty came from, but I was really sure of that. But it's the same certainty that you were referring to earlier. I think maybe because when I was a kid, I didn't have any choices. Somebody else made all my choices. Yeah, right. So once I had the power, I really used it.

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