Ina Garten

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful. ↗

— Ina Garten

#brown #chemistry #eats #food #good

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken. ↗

— Ina Garten

#chicken #dinner #large #like #making

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot? ↗

— Ina Garten

#because #everything #exactly #i #i always

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart. ↗

— Ina Garten

#heart #i #scientist #time

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties. ↗

— Ina Garten

#cookbooks #i #inspiration #must #my own

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa. ↗

— Ina Garten

#bought #first #hamptons #i #lived

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. ↗

— Ina Garten

#enhance #flavors #fresh #fresh ingredients #good

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. ↗

— Ina Garten

#extravagance #first #first thing #garden #gives

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance. ↗

— Ina Garten

#eat #fun #home #more #much

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work! ↗

— Ina Garten

#lot #make #maker #most #overrated