“You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.’”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Ina Garten, Cooking, Diets
“You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Cooking, Ina Garten
“I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Cooking, Ina Garten
“Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Cooking, Ina Garten
“Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Cooking, Dating, Attraction, Ina Garten
“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.”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Cooking, Ina Garten
“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.”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Gardening, Ina Garten
“The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Cooking, Ina Garten
“I worry that if I don’t challenge myself professionally I’ll lie on the sofa and watch old episodes of 'Law & Order' all day.”— Ina Garten, vanityfair.comTagged: Ina Garten, SVU, Law and Order
“Most of life’s problems can be solved with a good cookie.”— Ina Garten, vanityfair.comTagged: Mottos, For when things seem hard, Ina Garten
“Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Fun, Career, Ina Garten
“Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.”— Ina Garten, amazon.comTagged: Ina Garten, food, Cooking
“If it's not scary, everyone else would do it.”— Ina Garten, thekitchn.comTagged: Career, risks, Ina Garten
“I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.”— Ina Garten, thekitchn.comTagged: Ina Garten
“You can teach people about cheese, but you can't teach them to be happy.”— Ina Garten, thekitchn.comTagged: Ina Garten, Cheese, Fun