Ina Garten (2020)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ina Garten has spent the last seven months of the pandemic at her home in East Hampton, trying out recipes for her new cookbook Modern Comfort Food with her husband Jeffrey as the lucky taste-tester. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the Barefoot Contessa for a virtual catch-up to talk about that new book and what it’s like to film her cooking show by herself at home. Plus Jeffrey and Willie’s wife Christina make a special appearance, as the couples get together for a cocktail party over Zoom.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:06.3	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.8	Got one for you this week.
0:11.1	Brand new that I think you're going to love.
0:13.3	Ina Garten.
0:14.3	Who doesn't love Ina Garten?
0:16.2	The Barefoot Contessa, of course, the star of that show.
0:19.2	Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network for the last 18 years.
0:23.3	Best selling cookbook author.
0:24.9	She's got a new one out called Modern Comfort Food that we're going to talk about with
0:29.0	her, just a TV personality and someone that I think is universally beloved.
0:34.2	She has no formal training as a chef.
0:36.9	She actually worked in the budget office under President Ford and Carter.
0:41.9	Decided that wasn't for her.
0:43.7	A trip to France with her husband, Jeffrey, changed her life where she went to the local
0:48.4	markets and began to get interested in cooking, taught herself to cook through the Julia
0:52.8	child cookbooks, and now is the Barefoot Contessa.
0:57.0	She and I got together for an interview in 2018, two years ago, went to her home, which
1:03.4	is well known.
1:04.4	It's out on Long Island in East Hampton, New York.
1:06.5	It's where she lives, but it's also where she shoots Barefoot Contessa.
1:09.7	She's got a big barn that has a kitchen where they make all those recipes and cook all
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