Quotes About Ina Garten

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

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.

I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.

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

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

My favorite fall meal has to be a simple roasted chicken. Ina Garten does a fabulous one. There is just something about roasting your own chicken and vegetables that screams 'fall' and 'home' to me.