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" Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere. "
Guy
He
Ultimate
" Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal. "
Tomato
Soup
Meal
" I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself. "
Only
Myself
Holiday
" 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. "
Love
Always
Dinner
" I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special. "
Special
Think
Always
" I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer. "
Sitting
Like
Party
" 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. "
Fish
Think
Chicken
" If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken. "
You
Think
Thanksgiving
" 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. "
Night
People
Past
" I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up. "
Like
Up
Snack
" I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful. "
Food
Chemistry
Thoughtful
" I love to take something ordinary and make it really special. "
Special
Love
Ordinary
" 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? "
Want
Always
Way
" I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly. "
Turn
Peach
Recipe
" Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. "
Food
Yourself
Home
" In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork. "
Winter
Light
Apples
" I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart. "
Scientist
Everything
Heart
" I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. "
Great
Fun
Music
" I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties. "
Own
My Own
Cook
" I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa. "
Lived
First
Barefoot
" 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. "
Myself
Possible
Prepare
" I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did! "
Energy
Food
Management
" My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. "
Look
Me
Gardening
" My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead. "
Day
Winter
Fall
" My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way. "
World
Think
Mother
" Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have! "
Sweat
Guilty
Feel
" People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance. "
More
Fun
Home
" Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. "
Together
Down
Flower
" The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. "
Cookies
Bread
Myself
" The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it. "
Party
Having Fun
Fun
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