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In a recent interview with BBC News<\/a>, Ina Garten<\/a> welcomes viewers into her cozy East Hampton home to chat with Katty Kay about how she\u2019s become one of the most respected people in the culinary world. The massively influential home cook has spent years inspiring those interested in cultivating their culinary capabilities, and has done so with an unmatched sense of style and grace. We all have our reasons as to how Ina Garten influenced our cooking, but we now have a little more insight into what inspires Garten to continue down her iconic culinary path.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Upon entering Garten\u2019s impressively spacious \u201coffice\u201d kitchen<\/a>, which is completely separated from her actual home, Kay, who is enthralled by the high ceilings and ample space asks, \u201cIs it a pleasure to cook in here still?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh it\u2019s just wonderful,\u201d Garten exclaims, \u201cI actually think good architecture makes you better at whatever you\u2019re doing.\u201d She continues to mention how upon walking in every day she thinks, \u201cI can\u2019t believe I get to work here; it just makes me show up more.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Before moving on with the interview, Kay takes notice of Garten\u2019s massive cookbook collection, and questions if the culinary star still uses them to this day. \u201cThere\u2019s so many great cookbooks, why not?\u201d Garten poses her question before admitting that she still turns to her cookbooks for inspiration, as the books give her the ability to reference her favorite cooks before starting a recipe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s no secret that Ina Garten is absolutely a product of the people she looks up to, which totally explains the way she views herself. Rather than considering herself as a chef, Garten emphasizes that she is a \u201chome cook.\u201d As Kay goes on to question just how Garten became so incredibly influential, Garten reveals exactly what about her celebrity status gives her the most joy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI love when I walk down the street and somebody leans in and says, \u2018You taught me how to cook, thank you.\u2019\u201d Garten describes those moments as the precise thing that gives her life meaning that she never expected to have.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI wrote a cookbook while thinking about what I was going to do next after Ina\u2019s Special Made Food Store, I just didn\u2019t have anything to do so I thought, \u2018Well, I\u2019ll write a cookbook while I figure it out.\u2019\u201d Garten recalls having no idea what she would be doing beyond that, but said that sometimes \u201cit\u2019s like you just have to jump in the pond and splash around because you never know where it will lead to.\u201d Unbeknownst to Garten, it would lead to a place where, just like Julia Child who taught her how to cook, Garten is now able to teach other people how to cook as well. \u201cIt\u2019s just a great pleasure,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On the topic of children, Garten expressed that her and her husband Jeffrey\u2019s decision not to have any was quite the difficult one. In response to Kay questioning whether she knew that she couldn\u2019t do what she wanted to do if she had kids, Garten explains that it is much deeper than that. \u201cI\u2019m actually writing a memoir right now and it\u2019s kind of looking back at my childhood.\u201d Garten continues, \u201cIt was nothing I wanted to recreate.\u201d Garten goes on to explain that she is \u201calways looking forward to look back,\u201d and realized that a lot of her decisions were based on her childhood and concluded that this was the ultimate reason why they decided not to have children. \u201cAlso, Jeffrey and I are just so happy together.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no denying the absolute love and dedication to her craft and the life that Ina Garten has grown to enjoy. It\u2019s a beautiful thing to be able to learn from those you look up to, and it\u2019s nice to know that Ina Garten looks up to her idols just as we look up to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n