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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Ina Garten on Hosting Traditions and Dream Dinner Guests - Part 2 (May 2025)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Ina Garten is a Food Network legend known for bringing warmth, simplicity, and confidence to home entertaining. In this conversation from May 2025, Garten and Willie Geist continue their discussion from the second Sunday Sitdown Live at City Winery, where she demonstrates how to build the perfect dessert tray and reveals her dream dinner guests. Plus, she explains why hosting has remained one of the most meaningful parts of her life and career. (Venue sponsored by City Winery.)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:10.2

My thanks as always for tuning in again this week for a special episode two with Ina Garten.

0:15.7

In episode one, we brought you my sit down conversation with Ina in front of a live audience at City Winery in

0:22.5

New York City. Now, in part two, in front of that same audience at City Winery in New York City,

0:27.7

we popped up and built a proper dessert tray. I didn't know how to build a dessert tray. Guess who does?

0:34.3

Ina Garton, turns out you want a mix of shapes. You want a mix of sizes.

0:37.9

You want a mix of colors.

0:39.5

You want some greenery on that platter. You want some fruit on that platter. We also poured a proper cocktail, which was a Kier Royale. She will explain that to you how you mix it. It's actually two ingredients. It's very simple. We had a great time with the demo in front of the audience and then fielding audience questions as they came in. So sit back, relax now, and enjoy part two of my conversation with Ina Garten right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

1:09.1

When you're having dinner party, everybody thinks they have to do some over-the-top dessert, which takes so much time to make.

1:14.4

I have a way to make a dessert that's equally over-the-top, but really simple.

1:18.1

It requires no cooking at all.

1:19.7

Did I hear dessert?

1:20.6

Desert.

1:21.4

Hello again.

1:22.1

I see on the streets of New York.

1:24.4

So I understand dessert starts with flowers.

1:27.2

Yeah?

1:27.5

Unusually it does.

1:28.6

Okay.

1:29.0

Let's go shopping.

1:32.2

Oh, this is a beautiful shop.

1:33.8

Isn't a fabulous shop?

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