Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust

393 Pages·2012·16.28 MB·English

by  Ina Garten

ALSO BY INA GARTEN
The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Barefoot Contessa Parties!
Barefoot Contessa Family Style
Barefoot in Paris
Barefoot Contessa at Home
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?
Copyright © 2012 by Ina Garten
Photographs c03.1, c05.1, c06.1, and bm1.1 - bm1.4copyright © 2012 by John
Hall
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of
the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com
www.clarksonpotter.com
CLARKSON POTTER is a trademark and POTTER with colophon is a
registered trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garten, Ina.
Barefoot Contessa foolproof / Ina Garten. — 1st ed.
Includes index.
1. Cooking. I. Title.
TX714.G36425 2012
641.3—dc23 2012007526
eISBN: 978-0-77043340-6
Design by Marysarah Quinn
All photographs with the exception of those noted above are by Quentin
Bacon.
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introduction
10 foolproof tips for cooking
cocktails
starters
lunch
dinner
vegetables
desserts
12 foolproof tips for table settings
foolproof menus
sources
index
recipe index

thanks
I love writing cookbooks and I’m so grateful to the wonderful people who
work with me. First and foremost, I couldn’t get through the day without my
amazing “home team” of Barbara Libath, Suzanna Guiliano, and Erica Katz.
They keep me sane and giggling all day long.
For the books, thank you to my publisher, Clarkson Potter, headed by my
friend Pam Krauss, plus editor Rica Allannic, book designer Marysarah
Quinn, and publicist Kate Tyler. I’ve been at Clarkson Potter since my first
book and I love them all. I’m so proud of the quality of the books we produce
together; they make me look so much better than I am.
My photographic team and I have been together for a long time—Quentin
Bacon taking such beautiful photographs, Cyd McDowell artfully styling all
the food, and now we have the happy addition of Barb Fritz, who brings us
the most elegant props to play with. I love the weeks we spend together.
Thank you also to my friend Sarah Chase, who inspires me with wonderful
ideas, and to John Hall, for beautiful garden photographs.
There’s also a team behind the scenes that is so important to me. Esther
Newberg, my agent, brilliantly takes care of business, and Amelia Durand is
extraordinary handling the demands of publicity. Thank you both so much.
But most of all, my sweet husband, Jeffrey, who is such a good sport on my
TV show (yes, he’s my real husband—not my TV husband). I could never
have done a day of this without his loving encouragement and support.