#y

I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that. ↗

— Ina Garten

#dinner #drinks #during #frank #frank sinatra

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer. ↗

— Ina Garten

#everyone #far #i #killer #large

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. ↗

— Ina Garten

#bedtime #coffee #course #definitely #dessert

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up. ↗

— Ina Garten

#fill #i #keeps #like #snack

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful. ↗

— Ina Garten

#brown #chemistry #eats #food #good

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot? ↗

— Ina Garten

#because #everything #exactly #i #i always

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#awesome responsibility #decide #democracy #die #go

Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?" …Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see…love like starlight never dies… ↗

— Debi Gliori

#stars #death

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. ↗

— Ina Garten

#enhance #flavors #fresh #fresh ingredients #good

If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing. ↗

— Ina Garten

#choose #cocktail #different #different things #end