is a bookish home cook — and she wouldn’t have it any other way. “Do you ever go back through and look through your old cookbooks? I do for inspiration,” Garner tells TODAY.com over Zoom from her home office in Los Angeles, California, adding that she just revisited Ina Garten’s “Barefoot in Paris.
” “I try to go through an Ina cookbook that I haven’t looked through in a while pretty regularly, because I guarantee something will jump out for dinner,” she says. “‘The Foster’s Market Cookbook’ is the one I was using last night, and I just want to say that those are very — they’re very no nonsense,” she adds. Garner’s “ ,” the casual social media cook-along, where she makes everything from ( ) to a , is being viewed by more people than ever, what with her nearly 26 million followers on her Instagram and Facebook pages combined.
“It’s an homage to Ina Garten is really what it is,” Garner says of the show. In the in 2017, she kisses a copy of “Barefoot Contessa at Home.” Now she’s excited for to come out.
“I talked to her through writing it,” Garner says. “It sounds like it was a very intense process for her.” While Garner is enjoying the yield from all the seeds she’s planted over time, she is certainly weeding out a few ideas, too.
“People ask me if I want a cookbook. I don’t want to make a cookbook. I love cookbooks too much,” Garner says.
“I don’t cook without one, so I don’t come up with recipes. I mean,.
