**#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.
