Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients: A Cookbook -- Ina Garten, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites

Ina Garten's bestselling cookbooks have consistently provided accessible, subtly sophisticated recipes ranging from French classics made easy to delicious, simple home cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina truly breaks down her ideas on flavor, examining the ingredients and techniques that are the foundation of her easy, refined style.

Here Ina covers the essentials, from ten ways to boost the flavors of your ingredients to ten things not to serve at a party, as well as professional tips that make successful baking, cooking, and entertaining a breeze. The recipes--crowd-pleasers like Lobster Corn Chowder, Tuscan Lemon Chicken, and Easy Sticky Buns--demonstrate Ina's talent for transforming fresh, easy-to-find ingredients into elegant meals you can make without stress.

For longtime fans, Ina delivers new insights into her simple techniques; for newcomers she provides a thorough master class on the basics of Barefoot Contessa cooking plus a Q&A section with answers to the questions people ask her all the time. With full-color photographs and invaluable cooking tips, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is an essential addition to the cherished library of Barefoot Contessa cookbooks.

Author: Ina Garten
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
Published: 10/28/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.48lbs
Size: 10.22h x 7.80w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781400054350

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/15/2008 pg. 108
Publishers Weekly 09/15/2008 pg. 60
People Weekly 11/03/2008 pg. 51
Entertainment Weekly 11/21/2008 pg. 123
Publishers Weekly Best Books 03/23/2009 pg. 18

About the Author
Ina Garten is one of the country's most beloved culinary icons and the author of five previous cookbooks. She can be seen on Food Network, where her shows, Barefoot Contessa and Back to Basics, are among the network's most watched. Ina also writes a column on entertaining for House Beautiful magazine. Visit Ina at BarefootContessa.com.