photo from barefootcontessa.com
Tuesday is becoming bookstore day for me this month. Today, I’m picking up Ina Garten’s new book, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics. As her recipes are always straight forward (and delicious!) there is no way I’ll be able to wait two months for it to appear under the tree.
I love Ina’s decorating style, too, as I’ve spent a good amount of time watching her Food Network show and envying her house and gardens. This month, two of Ina’s houses are featured in magazines. What I love about her look is it is elegant, but with a very lived-in/comfortable quality. I aspire to that feel in my house. I can pull off elegant or lived in, but not concurrently. (Elegant requires roping off the room, and well, lived in alone is way too easy.) House Beautiful’s November issue showcases her new barn in East Hampton. (See a photo slideshow at housebeautiful.com. I chose the photo below because I am crazy for that purse. So simple! Plus, I love the desk.)
photo from housebeautiful.com
And in November’s Town & Country (Brooke Shields cover), you can see Ina’s Paris apartment plus read her insider’s picks. Oh how I want to visit Paris! (I don’t normally read T&C, but I lucked out and found it in a desperate airport moment.)
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Hi, I just found your blog because I was searching for these words:’Ina Garten new barn purse’ !! I too love that purse in the photo. I am trying to track it down but have no info yet. Please, let us know if you find out the brand, etc. I totally agree with everything else you wrote too!!
Her recipes always turn out delicious and I, too, am eying her newest creation. I saw her on GMA this morning and loved how easy the recipes seem to be. I can’t wait to hear how it is! I have it on my Christmas list, although I don’t know if I can wait that long either!
Love Ina. If I am ever in need of a “sure thing”, I always open one of her recipe books…they never fail.
Did you see Ina's Paris apartment in this month's Town & Country? It's just as gorgeous…