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Ina Garten

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“For years. You thought you weren't ready. You thought you weren't ready. Really? I thought, who wants to watch me cook on TV? I guess I was wrong. Turns out, Millie.”
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“Do the work. I think a lot of people say, how can I have a show on food network? Well, you know what? Bobby Place said to somebody. First, you have to wash the dishes in the kitchen and then you have to learn how to chop vegetables. And then maybe you go to culinary school and you need to do the work. You can't just go directly to a show on food network. You need the experience and the knowledge and the information that you can share with others.”
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“That is what you've done. What matters to me is taking care of people and that I give people the tools to take care of other people. I think we just need to stay connected. I think the world is very stressful. And I think the more we can create a community around ourselves and take care of the people around us, the more we can deal with the difficulties. And I think cooking brings people together and it makes us feel good about ourselves. And it's about, it's not about being with people that love us. It's about being with people that we feel love for. And we can do that with cooking.”
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“that we can do things that make other people feel they matter to us. And that makes them feel good and vice versa. And it's as simple as bringing up a pot of chicken soup to a friend who's sick. You're saying to that person, you matter to me. And that makes them feel good and it makes you feel good. And I feel like my books have mattered to people. And the TV show people have so many people said I taught them how to cook, which is just amazing to me. I did it because I thought it would be fun to do, but to have that as the legacy of it is just fabulous. And I think that really is everybody's legacy. Did my work matter to people as yours obviously has done for decades?”
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“Think writing the book has really made me realize this. I think the thing that we can do is matter to each other. Is that my work matters to other people? And it can be as simple as I've given somebody a recipe for a coconut cake and they've made it for their family. And their family goes, you made this yourself. So it makes me feel like what I've done, I've given them something that makes them feel good. And that matters to me. And the thing about mattering, which I'm a very good friend of mine, Jenny Walls, talks about mattering and she's writing about it, is that it's so actionable.”
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“It's a very small empire. Yes. I mean, my team is like the three of us. We meet at my office every day and we decide what we're all going to do. So it's, what I like is very hands-on. I don't like doing a million different things. And not feeling like I'm doing them well. I like doing one thing at a time. I like working on recipes and writing books and then doing TV and then going back to writing books. I really like that. I also like having things that are not work that are creative that I do. So I love worked on the garden. I'm not in the garden myself, but designing what the garden's going to be. I always have some kind of construction project. Renovating the house or building something. I just like to feel that I have a life outside work that's creative as well as having a creative work life.”
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“Yes, I do. Actually, it's funny. I've developed this over the years. If I know all the guests, I can do this in advance, but if somebody brings a guest, you know, brings somebody and I don't know them. I always assess who the two most talkative people in the group are. And I make sure they see that. I always have a round table, so I have them seated at opposite sides of the table. Because if the two talkative people are sitting next to each other, they end up talking to each other and everybody else is left out. But if the talkative people are opposite each other and the quieter people on the other, you know, on the other quadrant, everybody's part of the same party.”
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“Do but they've gotten smaller and smaller. Really? I used to like to have big parties, but now I like really small ones, like six people around a round table. What kind of parties do you like to give?”
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“It's very important to me that kind of the user experience. Is somebody going to want to make this? And then I literally give the recipe to my team and I just say, can I watch you make this? So I see if they're going to have any problems making it. Do they have questions about the text? Are they going to cut the carrots the right way? I'm really conscious that I want somebody at home using the book to feel good about it and to know that they've got the recipe right.”
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“Coming out of you. Is that stimulating for you? It is. I mean, after I finish a book, I think my team is always like, you're going to start right away. I will make a list of 50 ideas of recipes that I want to work on. And every morning I'll get up and think, or at night, I'll decide which one I'm going to do tomorrow. So I have the ingredients for it. And I'll just go, you know, it's a hot summer day. And, you know, I'm going to make a salad or I'm going to make some grilled thing. Or if it's a cold winter day, I'll make, you know, I feel like making like some kind of a soup or stew. A stew, yeah. And I'll take something off the list and just start working on it.”
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“So I think as soon as I got married, I remember getting Craig Claiborne's The New York Times cookbook. And I was making Hala. I was making mashed potatoes. I was making stews and chili and things that were just satisfying. And I think one of the things in my books is that my first requirement is just the title tell you what it is. It's lemon chicken with orso. You think, well, that sounds good. That's the good combination. Absolutely. And that sounds like it would be satisfying to eat. So my first requirement when I'm writing a recipe is what is the title?”
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“I recall, yes. Exactly. He said fish. I think that I probably was always craving that. And I think in a funny way, if when you're a child, I mean, this wasn't me, but you're forbidden candy. All you want is candy. Yes. So I think since we were forbidden, things that were delicious and felt good. You know, if I ask my mother for something for a cookie, she would just go, oh, just to eat an apple. She was always annoyed. I was like, nobody thinks an apple is not appropriate substitution for a cookie. Yes.”
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“It is true, isn't Well, I've really created it since then because I have none from my child. I mean, nobody would say, bro, I'll check in at canned vegetables. That's right. Peas and fish.”
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“My therapist actually described it as a lot of people stand on the side of the pond convincing themselves there's something that pond is dangerous, that bad things are in that pond. But you can't figure out what you want to do until you jump into the pond. And then when you're in the pond, you figure out where the stream is, where the stream is carrying you along. If you're knocking against the river banks, then you're not in the right stream. But if the stream is just carrying you along, that's the right stream.”
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“Why it happens. I think I learned from a difficult childhood when I was uncomfortable. I learned to sense strange, be comfortable with being uncomfortable. And I kind of use that to push myself to places that are not comfortable. Like starting especially foodstore when I don't know what I'm doing. I love the challenge. I love to decide what I'm going to do as opposed to somebody else deciding it and then really challenging myself to see if I can do it. And every time I think there's no way in hell that this is going to work out, but I'm going to try doing it anyway. And it always turns out better than I thought, which is, I don't know, I just keep doing it over and over again. So there must be something there.”
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“I think the force was that I was determined not to recreate that. I mean, I think a lot of people say I'm not going to live in that world. I'm going to create a different one. And then they end up marrying somebody who's just like their parents.”
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“So something else that wouldn't have happened. And it's, I mean, in my show, Be My Guest, it's been really interesting because so many of the people who are guests have had something really horrible happen to them. They didn't let it stop them. They pushed right through it and they figured it out and they kept going. And it was their success wouldn't have happened if that bad thing hadn't happened. That's right. And it's so interesting to me to see that happen over and over and over again.”
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“I mean, it really means something bad happens and you don't know whether it's bad. It could turn out to be the best thing that ever happened.”
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“You didn't either? Isn't that interesting? I never really thought about it until I wrote the book. And actually, I was talking to Stephen Colbert, and he said he has the same philosophy. So it's obviously working for some people.”
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“I think one of the things I learned from writing the book, and I hadn't really thought about it before, is that I always do what's in front of me today. I do the best job I can possibly do on it And then at the end of the day, I decided what I'm going to do tomorrow, get everything organized so that I can do it tomorrow. I don't have a long-term vision. I don't have a goal. I don't think, oh, I want to get over there in a year. I don't have a five-year plan. I never did either. The best job I can do now. And then tomorrow I'm going to do the best job I can do then. And things happen along the way. And I think if you're looking at your goals, first of all, the goals of the wrong goals because things happen along the way that you would never have imagined, like television coming along. I mean, I would never have imagined being on television. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. And it turned out to be a great thing. So I don't have those long-term goals. And I think it leaves people, it left me at least to do a really good job because I'm not busy looking around. I'm just...”
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“You But instinctively, you know what's right. Absolutely. And it's right for you. It may not be right for somebody else. That's right.”
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“And I get everybody's point of view, and I hear, I know you talk, we kind of build something together, but at the end of the day, it's my job to choose. Do you feel that way”
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“Trust that. They honor that. They believe in that. And I always see it as like I'm on a train and people are trying to pull me off the train and I just keep it right on the tracks. I just, if I feel like I'm so sure what I'm doing is right, I don't let people pull me off my game.”
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“Wow. The publishers Just trust your vision. I think the thing that works is if you're really true to who you are, if you believe in it so fiercely, somebody out there is going to believe in it. It's true. It's not, I'm going to become this perky, whatever it is person that people will love. Just do what you just who you are. Just put out who you are and do the best job you can possibly do. And I think people...”
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“Isn't that amazing? I still don't have a convertible, not the same one, but I have a convertible. And it was, you know, when I think back, very often when you can't, you know, when you're not having fun, you can't figure out what's fun.”
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“That week I rented a Red Mustang convertible, which was so much fun. And I hired a Seuss who literally has been coming every single Sunday at 6 o'clock for 40 years.”
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“I think I was working all the time and I wasn't having fun. And I remember going toward the first day and I said, I just, I'm not having fun. I mean, it's just, I work all the time. And it's easy to get wrapped up in that. And these were the days, and it was true for us for a long time, when Jeffrey would leave on Monday. And if he was an investment banker, he'd go to New York or Zimbabwe or Costa Rica or when he was in the government, he'd go to Washington on Monday and then come back on Friday. So the weekdays, I pretty much had on my own. And I would just work all the time. And so I went to this therapist. And I mean, we did a lot of really good work, but the first day she said to me, what would be fun? And I was like, I don't know. I really don't know. Maybe a convertible. Maybe a masseuse, you know, just I needed something that wasn't work that would be fun. And she said, go do it. And so that.”
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“Jeffrey's philosophy. Really, he's so wise. He is. And so it's never, his advice is never, this will be good for me. His advice is always, you know, this is good for us.”
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“And so we kind of took a break for about four months and he was to the State Department. He went on this big trip around the world. And afterwards, at the end of the year, we met in Palm Springs. And we just talked. We just sat and talked about what he wanted and what I wanted. And he always has this great attitude. Let's just figure out what each of us wants and how we can do both of them. It's never about what he wants to do or what I want to do. How can we do both of them? Wow.”
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“Well, I think, you know, remember we got married in 1968. And the 70s women are kind of sorting things out. And when we got married, it was assumed that he would be the husband and I would be the wife and I would make dinner and he would do the finances. And we would have kind of prescribed roles. And I think those roles kind of annoyed me in the 70s, even though Jeffrey thought, you know, thought of me as an equal, I just feel like, I don't know, we just had roles that we were playing. And then when I bought the store and I found I had my own business and I had my own, you know, my own life, I found those rules really confining. And so I just said to him, I just feel like I need to be on my own for a little while. And I mean, as Jeffrey would, he said, if you feel like you need to be on your own, you need to be on your own.”
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“that you would create this empire. Even better, it gave me a life that was just so much fun, surrounded with people that I love to work with, doing something I really care about, taking care of people. I mean, in the store, we've made dinner for them, which was taking care of them, but writing cookbooks, I feel like I'm giving people the tools to make dinner for people around them so they create a community for themselves.”
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“I remember thinking at the time this is crazy. I don't know how to run especially. I don't even know how to run a store. I'd never had an employee before. I didn't know anything. So I made a deal with the owner that she would stay with me for a month and teach me what I needed to know. And she was a great teacher. And I remember thinking, do I really want to do this? And Jeffrey said, if you do what you love. If you love it, you'll be really good at it. And I thought, okay, I'm going to go for it. And looking back behind me at running nuclear energy policy papers, that wasn't an option anymore. So I thought this may not be where I end up, but I'm going to start the process. And who knew that's where we're certainly knowing.”
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“And you describe Well, I had driven Jeffrey and I had gotten in the car in Washington and driven, I don't know, like six hours to this small town in the Hamptons. And it was April. So it was dead. I mean, there was nobody in town. There wasn't even a cat walking down the middle of the street. And I turned into this little store. It was like 400 square feet. And they were baking chocolate chip cookies. And there were specialty cheeses and there were smoked salmon and they were. There were dinners for sale, and I just walked in and just inhaled the fragrance of it, the cookies baking and the cheeses. And it just looked like so much fun. And it just looked so pleasurable. And I just walked in and I thought, oh, this is where I want to be. I wanted to come to work and sneakers.”
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“Teach I was starving. I was starving for flavor. I was starving for fun. I was starving for connection. I was just starving. And then Jeffrey came along and he just encouraged my craziest whims.”
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“You know what's so interesting I married Jeffrey and I started at baking bread. Yes, yes. And so this is great. I can make anything I want.”
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“I think when I was working at the White House, actually the whole time I was in Washington, I was teaching myself how to cook just because I thought it was fun. And I was buying old houses and renovating them because I thought it was fun. And I think my work was serious, but it wasn't really fun. And so I did these other things. So I always thought I'd either go into the food business or I'd go into real estate and I didn't know which one it was. And so then I saw this ad for a specialty food store for sale in a place I'd never been before. It was in West Hampton Beach. And I thought, God, that sounds like fun. And I went home and told Jeffrey about it. And I said to him, I really need to do something fun. My job's just not fun.”
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“Nobody was saying that in the 70s, I mean, when I was, you know, when we got married in 1968, he said to me, you need to do something with your life, otherwise you won't be happy. And it's funny the other day when I made number one on the New York Times bestseller List, he turned to me. He said, you know, you really need to do something with your life. It just reminded me of where it started. Wow. It was just great. After all these years. But he just thought I was very capable and I would be happy if my life was productive.”
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“Jeffrey never told me what to do, which was so the opposite of what my upbringing was, where I was told how to do everything. He just... Made me feel like he believed that I could do anything and that, um, Would talk stuff out, and he would say, Have you thought about this and if you thought about that? And we would have a conversation about things. So he just made me right from the beginning, he would say to me, do what you love if you love that you'll be really good at it because he knows I have a lot of enthusiasm and energy for things.”
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“Most memoirs have the pictures in the well in the middle. And you have to sort out where's that picture from? Yes, I saw my book designer Mary Sarah Quinn and I decided we wanted it to be a picture in the beginning of a chapter and a picture at the end of the chapter and maybe even a recipe from the story”
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“And we thought, you know, my father was a doctor, my mother ran a real estate business. I mean, it all looked perfect. We're very, you know, upper middle class. I went to great schools and, you know, everything looked great. And yet it was the more I look back. And I think as a child, I didn't understand that it was so wrong. I just thought, this is the way people grow up. And I think it took me until I was maybe 40 to really sort out how stressful that situation was and how wrong it was.”
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“And that's why I told the story. And I know you have the same experience. It's in a different format, but still we have the same experience. I wanted people not to know that I had a terrible childhood. Certainly people have had worse childhoods than I did. But I wanted them to know that you can make a decision with enormous determination and change your life and not make that the definition of your life. And I just remember when I was 15, I remember making that decision. I wasn't going to live like this, that if I was dating somebody who so much has raised his voice to me, I was out of there. That I wanted to be with somebody who was supportive and positive and I wanted to surround myself with people that were positive. Yeah. And what's so interesting.”
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“The title came from a very dear friend of mine, Rob Marshall, who's the Broadway and movie director, was when he was on Broadway when he's, I think he was 23 or 24, he was the dance captain for Liza Minelli Show. And Liza said to him, be ready when the luck happens. And he never forgot it. And what she was saying is to the work. So when the luck happens, you're ready for it. Preparation. I was Almost done with the book. I didn't have a title. I was just coming to terms with the idea that I actually, yes, I've been lucky, but I was ready when it happened. I'd done the work so that I was ready when it happened. And I thought, oh my God, that's what my life has been about, is getting ready. So I'm there when a lot happens. And that's why, so I asked if I could use that as a title. It's a great, great, great, great, just perfect”
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“Do you remember Maybe it was a love tap. It was a love tap. I don't remember slapping you, but I do. You were just like, whoa, you make your own luck. And I was like, yes. No, I've just been really lucky.”
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“I thought, well, you and I are going to talk about this, I'm sure, because I always thought I'd been incredibly lucky in my life. And I also thought I did this and then I did that and I did something else and I figured it out, but I don't know how I did it. And when I had to go back and look at the whole. My whole life, I realized that connecting the dots was really easy. I continued to do the same thing over and over again. I kind of challenged myself at each time. But at the moment that I started doing a specialty food store, I realized I had already figured I taught myself how to cook, so I actually was ready. I didn't think I'd done the work, but I actually had. Writing the book made me realize that I was prepared for each stage that I got to.”
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“I think I never really made a decision to write it. I just decided I would start and I was working with a friend of mine whose name is Deborah Davis and she's an amazing researcher and she would interview me and record what I was telling her, the stories I was telling her, but she took me back to places I've been and asked me about it and I recalled things I didn't remember. But I think when I started, I said to her, let's just start this. I'm really not sure it's going to be interesting because it's my life. I've lived it. I never look back. And I said, at any point that I think it's not interesting enough for people to read, then I want to just pull the plug. And she said, fine, let's just start. I think she knew it was going to be more interesting than I thought. But the process of doing it changed how I feel about my life. It was just quite extraordinary.”
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“I'm in the kitchen and eat stampton. Exactly. That's what I call the barn. But a few people have said barn isn't exactly what comes to mind when they say it. No, that's.”
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“From you, Oprah, that's unbelievable. Thank you. I'm good. I've done everything I need to do in my life now. Thank you. Oh, it's so true.”
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