I Love My

PRODUCER KATHRYN OSHEA-EVANS PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID A. LAND HAIRSTYLIST ERICA McSWEENEY MAKEUP ARTIST TINA TOSCANO PROP STYLIST LUIGI MENDUNI
Ina Garten in her
cookbook library.
Her latest book is
Cooking for Jeffrey
(Clarkson Potter).

Jeffrey and I had been married for two years when we went
camping in Normandy, France. The woman who owned the campsite offered us beef
bourguignonne, and I was like, Yessss!we had very little money, and Id been
using a small gas stove in the tent. Well, the meal was extraordinary. I had to figure
out how to re-create it, and I used Julia Childs Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
I taught myself to cook using cookbooks; now Im obsessed. But I had no place to keep
themthey were piled on the floor in stacks! So I built them a home.

Ina Garten
Author and host of Barefoot Contessa; East Hampton, New York

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