Is it good?
September 16, 2014 2:11 PM   Subscribe

 
I get a surprising amount of enjoyment out of her daily Ina live-tweeting.
posted by ghharr at 2:18 PM on September 16, 2014 [3 favorites]


I do, in fact, need a nice cocktail for breakfast.

I too enjoy her Ina live-tweeting, which is not something I would have predicted.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 2:20 PM on September 16, 2014


I find her repeated questions and phrases very soothing. She could slip in a few "Hail Satan"s and I wouldn't even blink.
posted by The Whelk at 2:30 PM on September 16, 2014 [5 favorites]


How bad could that be?

I haven't read the article yet, but if that isn't in there, fail.
posted by mudpuppie at 2:30 PM on September 16, 2014 [2 favorites]


I think one of her rhetorical questions should be "Can I cook or what?"

Sadly for most of the Food Network stable of food stars - the answer would be "uh... No."
posted by helmutdog at 2:38 PM on September 16, 2014


Also I prefer to think she accidentally moved into a wealthy gay retirement community but everyone's too nice to tell her ( plus, the dinner parties.)
posted by The Whelk at 2:42 PM on September 16, 2014 [17 favorites]


Rhetorical questions stress me out because of people who insist that you answer their clearly rhetorical questions.
posted by bleep at 3:04 PM on September 16, 2014 [1 favorite]


Don't you just hate that, bleep?
posted by notyou at 3:13 PM on September 16, 2014 [10 favorites]


I somehow want to live in Ina Garten's world...upscale and WASPy and yet somehow also down to earth and real. I mean...how bad could that be?
posted by biscotti at 3:51 PM on September 16, 2014 [1 favorite]


It's faaaaaabulous.
posted by Solomon at 3:52 PM on September 16, 2014


I find her repeated questions and phrases very soothing.

As is her reassurance that store bought is fine.
posted by mstokes650 at 4:00 PM on September 16, 2014 [1 favorite]


It's fine, it's totally fine, everything is fine in Ina World, where it's always 75 degrees and sunny and the olive oil is always "really good" and unseen magic helpers make everything perfect and polished and "wonderful" husbands are Always somehow just off stage.

Ina Land is like those visions of fairy courts, just don't eat the food or you'll be trapped there and it turns out everything is really made of wax and leaves and kidnapped Hamptonites smiling the nodding, faces frozen in rictus fear.
posted by The Whelk at 5:07 PM on September 16, 2014 [6 favorites]


God, this is great. I just can't believe it took so long.

Every once in a while someone will post the video of Jay Mohr with Andy Cohen doing his great Ina impression, but Bravo always takes it down. He totally nails it, especially with the line, "...but don't tell Jeffrey."
posted by Room 641-A at 5:23 PM on September 16, 2014


"HOW EASY IS THAT?" WAS THE NAME OF ONE OF HER FUCKING COOKBOOKS, FOR FUCK'S SAKE PUT IT ON THE LIST
posted by ersatzkat at 5:26 PM on September 16, 2014


...and TR is so fucking cute
posted by ersatzkat at 5:27 PM on September 16, 2014


Cooking wise Ina falls JUUUST on the edge of being Too Fancy or Fussy ( ESP the specialized equipment) for everyday but worth it for Making An Effort weekend meal thing with a focus on the general kind of Alice Waters-y country Frenchy Vaguely northern Italian stuff Americans go for.
posted by The Whelk at 5:39 PM on September 16, 2014


That, and her hypnoticly *confident* and self assured manner. It's downright spooky and so very assuring "yes of course it IS good, anything you say ..."
posted by The Whelk at 5:48 PM on September 16, 2014


Also, it looks like she's had an interesting life - Nuclear policy analysist and all.

I love it when Roxane doesn't know who the guest is "It's a nice old Jewish guy named Mel!"
posted by The Whelk at 5:58 PM on September 16, 2014 [2 favorites]


I think my favorite is:

"We need a nice cocktail for breakfast, don’t we?"
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 6:26 PM on September 16, 2014


I guess I'm the asshole but Roxane's daily tweeting about Ina made me look into whether there's a way to mute someone for just an hour every day...
posted by DynamiteToast at 6:53 PM on September 16, 2014


here, why not have a slice of good pie

/it's a good pie/

for the greater good

the greater good

posted by The Whelk at 8:01 PM on September 16, 2014 [1 favorite]


40th anniversary episode clip: If the tent be rockin' don't be knockin'
posted by maggieb at 9:08 PM on September 16, 2014 [1 favorite]


Ina Garten at Authors@Google

About 3 minutes in the awkward patter stops and it gets really interesting.
posted by The Whelk at 9:21 PM on September 16, 2014


bleep?
posted by notyou at 11:03 PM on September 16, 2014 [1 favorite]


I did not know about this and I am so happy to know of this now!
posted by pointystick at 5:14 AM on September 17, 2014


GOOD morning, peasants!
posted by jbickers at 6:03 AM on September 17, 2014 [1 favorite]


I've never watched Ina Garten, but I'm reading Bad Feminist and liking it a lot. I'm very glad that whatever pointed me to Roxane Gay's work did so.
posted by johnofjack at 7:38 AM on September 17, 2014


This thread FINALLY made me realize that Roxane Gay is a different person from Rozanne Gold, chef and author of Radically Simple, among other cookbooks. I thought it seemed strange that one cookbook author would be sniping at another, much more established one. (I was also surprised that a cookbook author would also get a publishing contract to write about feminism.)
posted by chickenmagazine at 8:36 AM on September 17, 2014






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