One of my most treasured cooks,
Ina Garten, from the
Food Network cooking show
Barefoot Contessa was in the OC last week. She came to
Williams-Sonoma for a book signing for her lastest cookbook "
How Easy is That?"
From my last Williams-Sonoma
Bobby Flay book signing, I arrived 2 hours early - and supposedly Ina Garten had more reservations than Bobby Flay- he had 800 and she had 1200??? WOW! Guess where I lined up at 10am in the morning - OUTSIDE THE MALL.
Holy smokes batman! I passed the time by chatting away with the ladies in line. I had met two amazing ladies who had been best friends for 53 years since the womb! I'm lucky that I live in SoCal because the weather was perfect and it was in the mid 70s and from where I was standing there was ample shade from the mall.
The only sad thing to report - Ina would only be signing the books that you purchased from here - only the new book and she would not be posing for pictures. There would be no way to get a personal picture or get her to sign my other beloved cookbooks. Oh well, I tried. I did manage to get a couple of pictures with her while I'm telling her how "fabulous" all of her recipes are and how I greatly admire her. She was happy to hear that and told me that I would enjoy this new cookbook.
Wow, can I tell you how amazing 2010 has been for me to meet so many celebrity food chefs? I'm just in absolute awe -
Cat Cora,
Rick Bayless,
Bobby Flay, and now Ina Garten. I also had to pass up the opportunity to meet
Ming Tsai because of a previous engagement. It's been such a fun-foodie blessed year. I'm going to have restrain myself for awhile
(unless it's Tyler Florence) because I want to cook my way through these cookbooks before I think of purchasing anymore! I can't wait to cook up more fabulous recipes from Ina Garten because everything in this new cookbook is easier to prepare and totally drool worthy and delicious.
