Ina Garten: Modern Comfort Food.
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ina Garten superfan Bill takes a needed step away from politics (for all of us!) to indulge his love of cooking and The Barefoot Contessa. They discuss her life in the kitchen, in The Office of Management and Budget (OMB, yes,really) and her new cookbook, Modern Comfort Food.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, happy holidays, and welcome back to a very special holiday edition of the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:15.9 | You know, one impact of this pandemic, we're spending a lot more time at home and consequently a lot more time in the |
| 0:23.1 | kitchen, revisiting a lot of our favorite recipes and looking for a lot of new ones. And now just in time, |
| 0:31.2 | as a lifesaver, comes along a new cookbook from my absolute favorite home cook, I Ina Garden, known affectionately, of course, |
| 0:40.4 | as the Barefoot Contessa. |
| 0:43.7 | As a very amateur cook, still kind of afraid of the kitchen, there are two things I love |
| 0:49.1 | about Ina's recipes. |
| 0:51.0 | One, whether meat, fish, vegetables, or pasta, they're so unfailingly good and delicious. |
| 0:58.4 | Two, to borrow the title from one of her best books, they are foolproof. Follow the recipe, |
| 1:06.0 | and you can't go wrong. Ina's new book, her 15th, by the way, is modern comfort food with some great new |
| 1:14.5 | recipes like skillet roasted chicken and potatoes, which I highly recommend, and variations on some |
| 1:21.1 | old favorites like her ultimate beef stew, unbelievably good. So just before the holidays, I had the great pleasure of interviewing |
| 1:30.4 | Ina Garden for a talk of the Hill event at Washington's Great Hill Center. Enjoy our conversation |
| 1:37.0 | and then run out to your local bookstore for a copy of Modern Comfort Food. It's certainly a long |
| 1:43.2 | way from the Office of Management and Budget |
| 1:45.8 | in the White House for President Ford, President Carter, to being one of the most popular |
| 1:52.1 | and successful chefs in the United States with so many cookbooks. Thank you. Well, not a chef, |
| 1:58.2 | kind of a home cook. How did you, did that start in Washington? |
| 2:02.9 | How did you get started? What was that transition? Well, you know, when I first, I got married when I was 20, and Jeffrey was in the military, and I just decided that I wanted to teach myself how to cook. |
| 2:13.3 | So we had just come back from a camping trip in Europe, which was in Paris and London and Scotland |
| 2:20.6 | and Provence. |
| 2:22.8 | And I just got a taste of great ingredients from the markets. |
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