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• My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead.

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  Fall, Winter, Two

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• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

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  Fun, White, Office

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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

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  Fun, Taken, Home

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• I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

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  Flower, Thinking, Special

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• When I first started writing cookbooks, I remember thinking to myself, what makes me think I can write a cookbook? There are these great chefs who are really trained. And, as I started, I realized, actually, what is my lack is actually exactly right, because I can connect with - cooking's hard for me. I never worked on... And that's why my recipes are really simple, because I want to be able to do them.

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  Writing, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With more and more fast food available, it takes an extra effort to cook delicious, healthy meals. I have always been a proponent of simple, easy food that doesn't take forever to cook so you really can eat well at home.

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  Home, Simple, Effort

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.

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  Summer, Winter, Light

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

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  Firsts, Hamptons, Stores

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• 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.

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  Morning, Garden, Giving

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

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  Heart, Scientist

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• I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones.

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  Simple, Thinking, Recipes

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

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  Garden, People, Cooking

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• The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

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  Mother, Dirty, Home

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

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  Party, Sitting, Tables

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• I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.

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  Recipes, Peaches, May

  Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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• I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

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  Snacks, Energy, Almonds

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• I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

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  Dinner, Drink, Upbeat

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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

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  Home, Simple, Paris

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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

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  Party, Inspiration, Use

  Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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• You can get bogged down in a recipe that's got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to make. And then you realize, you've just got one dish. For Thanksgiving, you want an abundance of choices, and so you want dishes that you can put together really quickly, but that doesn't mean less flavor.

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  Mean, Choices, Together

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

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  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Adore

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

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  Scratches, Puff, Want

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

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  Decision, Meals, Make Or Break

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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

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  Thoughtful, Chemistry, Brown

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• 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?

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  Thinking, Way, Recipes

  Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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