INA GARTEN BAREFOOT CONTESSA
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I write cookbooks cuz I love writing them but my favorite thing is when I get stopped in the street and people say you taught me how to cook I mean the truth is I’m not really trained professional I learned how to cook from Julie child and Craig Clayborn
And just doing things over and over again but I’ve spent 40 years in kitchens and what I’m doing is taking the tips that I’ve learned from those kitchens that you can do at home so if you have those skills your cooking is not only going to be better but you’re
Going to be more com confident about it which I think makes all the difference in the world I’m going to cook the potatoes and the chicken on the same cheap pan at the same temperature for the same amount of time my food tends to be homecooking but with a volume turned
Up and so I want people to be able to do that really with confidence that they know it’s going to come out exactly the way they want it to my assistant who does cooking with me Lighty when she first came she loved to cook but didn’t
Know the right way to do things so when you started out how would you have cut a carrot definitely straight AC cross one of the tips that I always use is that things are garnished with what’s in the dish like the Israeli vegetable salad it has humus on the bottom with
Tomatoes and cucumbers and mint and so I make sure that I finish it with mint we always say if something that you’ve made at home looks great you say it looks professional but if you buy something in a bakery and bring it home and it’s just fantastic and you say it tastes homemade
So we want our food to look like it was homemade by professionals so that’s what I think this book is about is to try and show people how they can make something at home that looks and tastes professional