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And by the late '70s, I thought, I have been working here for four years, and nothing has happened. And I just didn't feel like I had any impact on anything. And I hit 30, and I thought, I want to do what I want to do. And I thought, I want to be in the food business.
One day, she saw an ad for a specialty food store for sale in the Hamptons, the exclusive beach destination for New Yorkers.
I went home and I told Jeffrey about it, and he said, pick something you love to do. If you love doing it, you will be really good at it. And so I made her a very low offer, the woman who was selling it, thinking, well, we will come back. We will negotiate. We drove back to Washington.
I was in my office the next day and the phone rang. And she said, thank you very much. I accept your offer. And I just remember going, oh (EXPLETIVE DELETED).
That was it. Two months later, I was behind the counter of a specialty foods store, trying to figure it out.
The store she bought was called the Barefoot Contessa. That was the nickname of the prior owner.
It was 1978, and this was Garten's very first job in the food industry.
So, had you been a cook before?
I'd never worked in a store. I never worked in a restaurant. I mean, I cooked at home, but that's not really the same thing. I taught myself how to cook when I worked in Washington using Julia Child's cookbooks.
And you have had no training beyond that?
The store was a smash, and later moved to a bigger location in East Hampton.
After 18 years, she sold the store and tried her hand at a new venture. In 1999, the Barefoot Contessa cookbook was published, and it quickly became a bestseller. Nine additional books have followed, each a bestseller. All contain her trademark simple and accessible recipes.
I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that you would open the book, that you would look at the photograph and go, that looks delicious. And then you would look at the recipe and say, I can actually make that and I can make it with ingredients I can find in t...
I don't think that's changed at all.
Having taught yourself how to cook, does that inform the recipes that end up in your book, because you're thinking of them not from a professionally trained mind, but someone who did this on her own?
Cooking is hard for you?
It is so hard for me. Anybody that works with me will tell you. It's so hard for me. And that's why my recipes are really simple, because I want to be able to do them.
Soon, executives at the Food Network came calling, and calling, and calling.
I understand you were reluctant at first to do television?
I just said no over and over and over again.
I just didn't think I'd be good on TV. I just couldn't imagine why anybody would watch it.
And Food Network, fortunately, kept coming back again and again. And they said, just try it. And I thought, well, I will just do 13 shows, and then they will leave me alone.
And that was how many shows later?
And, happily, that was 15 years later.
I'm going to show you my recipes and my techniques.
The Barefoot Contessa series is now 13 seasons' strong.
You too can cook like a pro.
Her latest version, "Cook Like a Pro," shows tips and techniques aimed at helping viewers become more comfortable in the kitchen.
Everything you need to know, from trussing the bird to carving it.
What do you know of your audience? Who is watching it?
You know, there's this moment in time when I really got a vision of who the audience was. I was walking up Madison Avenue, and there was a woman in a big fur coat. And she said, "Oh, darling, love your cookbooks."
And I thought, that's very nice. Then I kept going.
About a half-a-block later, a truck driver pulled over and said, "Hey, baby, love your show."
And I thought, that's food.
I think my cookbook audience might be slightly different from my TV audience, but I think they're people that are interested in food, and that's everybody.
You're doing a beautiful job, I have to tell you.
During our visit, Garten showed us a few simple recipes. You can see her demonstrate them on our Web site.
Meanwhile, she says her days are now spent testing new recipes for her upcoming 11th cookbook. It's due in the fall of next year.
I love what I'm doing. I'm really happy doing it, and I hope I can do It forever. And I'm having a ball.
Ina Garten, so great to talk to you. Thank you very much.
Well, it was so much fun to talk to you too, William.
Online, one NewsHour staffer shares what Ina Garten taught her about life, love and dijon vinaigrette. That's at pbs.org/newshour.
Four men (and a boy) find out if it's possible to have too much horsepower.
With the looks from an '80s concept car and the drivetrain of a Honda bike, what's there not to love?
The Honda Riding Assist concept motorcycle keeps itself upright at a stop or during low-speed maneuvers.
Don't want your car to fall on you while you're working on it? Let a real engineer show you how it's done.
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats perform at the Centennial Day Party during The UMS in 2013. Photo by Seth McConnell, heyreverb.com.
For the past five years, a shady backyard behind a yellow house on 1st and Acoma in the Baker Neighborhood has provided some of Denver’s finest music memories.
There was the time Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats gave one of their first-ever performances. The band’s horn section bravely climbed onto the roof, which sagged under the weight of the brass and Aaron Collins acting as a human mic stand. And the time Churchill — right as the band was blowing up into the nation...
All these moments come from a free party that Nate and Patrick Meese have thrown each year during (and inspired by, though not officially affiliated with) the Underground Music Showcase.
Cure your hangovers at Reverb’s Official Day Party at The UMS on Sunday.
See our full coverage of UMS 2015 here.
In its five years, whether it intended to or not, the Unofficial Centennial Day Party during The UMS has acted as a tiny weekend-long microcosm of the Denver music scene. The Night Sweats have gone on to receive glowing international press and late night appearances. Churchill (though soon broke up) went on internation...
“I think it’s a testament to how lucky we are to live in Denver and how lucky we are to be in this music scene and it’s more of a happenstance of our friendships,” Nate Meese said.
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Blue Rider, The Other Black, The Royal, Kitty Crimes, Machine Gun Blues, Photo Atlas, The Knew, Porlolo, Gun Street Ghost and Tyler Lee Holter are on the lineup this Friday and Saturday for the last-ever Centennial party.
In the last half-decade, the party has been one of the leaders in a trend of unofficial parties during the UMS — like the annual Mile High Parley at Mutiny Cafe or the Mountain to Sound and Strings & Wood Concerts backyard party.
“I know that we were one of the first that started this. And I think it’s awesome, man. And I think it really legitimizes the festival and makes it more of a community,” Nate Meese said.
The Centennial party might not be continuing in its current state, but Nate said the guys are interested in continuing to have a presence during The UMS, whether they’re living in the area or not.
“We want to continue to do something during the UMS, and whether that’s with the festival proper or we continue to do our own thing at a different site, it would feel weird to have late-July come along and not do something,” Nate Meese said.
Worldwide use of DSL technology for broadband access rose 38 percent to around 164 million users in the year to June 30, 2006 boosted by strong growth in the European Union, industry trade group said Tuesday.
In EU countries, roughly 18 million new DSL users were added in those 12 months, an increase of 45 percent, bringing the total to 56 million, and making up slightly more than one-third of the global total.
The figures were announced by the industry group DSL Forum, which is holding a quarterly meeting of the in Athens.
Use of DSL, or digital subscriber line, has accelerated in the last few years as advances in technology have driven down prices and allowed greater services to be offered over existing telephone lines.
"Sustained global growth in DSL is founded on leveraging the existing telecommunications infrastructure," Michael Brusca, head of the DSL Forum, said.
"The performance and quality of broadband services with DSL keeps on getting better and better."
In North America, where cable television penetration is widespread, slightly more than half of broadband subscribers use cable television lines.
However, in the year to June, DSL use rose faster than cable modem subscriptions and overall, the market rose 31 percent to 26.7 million users.
In the Asia-Pacific region, DSL use rose 9.5 percent to 29.8 million users, while in South and Southeast Asia, the number of users rose 57 percent to 36.2 million, due largely to 11.6 million new subscribers in China.
Latin America added 3 million subscribers for a total of 8.06 million and the Middle East and Africa added 1.75 million for a total of around 3.8 million.
For the latest research on Cuba from Brookings experts, visit our Cuba topic page.
On the heels of the announcement of the restoration of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations on July 20, Cuba’s removal from the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list, and the re-opening of embassies in the two countries, we mined the considerably large trove of recent Brookings content to find some of the most interesting f...
1. Cuba receives almost 100,000 barrels of oil a day from Venezuela.
The easing of diplomatic hostilities between the United States and Cuba may work to lessen Cuban dependence on the Venezuelan regime, Ted Piccone notes. Russian President Vladimir Putin also recently wrote off $32 billion, 90 percent of the debt Cuba owed dating back to the Soviet era.
2. The aggregated gross national income per capita of Cuba is officially $5,539, but the take home salary for most Cubans is around $20 a month.
While there is little publicly available data regarding individual incomes, Richard Feinberg concludes, using a variety of indicators, that 40 percent of the Cuban labor force falls within a broadly defined middle class, though consumption remains depressed due to low government wages.
3. Less than five percent of Cubans have access to the Internet.
While demand is increasing for American cultural and telecommunications products, companies like Netflix and Google are working on long-term plans to find their way into the country’s economy. The first step in this process came in early February, according to Darrell West, when Netflix announced it would begin streami...
4. The Cuban government authorizes only 201 different categories of activities for self-employment.
This creates a problem in forging economic ties, Ted Piccone writes, since “U.S. importers can only engage in transactions with independent Cuban entrepreneurs” while Cuba fails to expand the list, excluding “huge swaths of Cuba’s human capital” from trade with the U.S.
5. More than two-thirds of the 2 million Cubans and Cuban-Americans in the United States live in Florida; 18 percent of Miami residents identify as Cuban.
Audrey Singer explains how these demographic distributions play a key role in normalizing relations with Cuba. Currently, a visa lottery system allows 20,000 Cubans to emigrate every year to the United States, while others try to make the trek by sea—the U.S. Coast Guard stopped 500 such potential immigrants in Decembe...
6. New Cuban hotspots can process 1 megabit per second, far below the average U.S. speed.
Darrell West examines the growth of Internet access in Cuba, noting that improved relations with the U.S. could relax restrictions on better IT equipment.
7. The dependency ratio* of the Cuban population will increase from 54.7 today to 67.7 in 2025.
*The dependency ratio is defined as the ratio of those not in the labor force (people younger than 15 or older than 60) to the working population (aged 15-60).
8. 90 percent of Cubans own their own homes.
The high homeownership rate on the island is supported by President Raúl Castro’s economic reform agenda, which attempts to “preserve socialism while introducing new forms of market-based mechanisms,” writes Ted Piccone. In addition to the ability to buy and sell property, Cuban citizens can now open small businesses, ...
9. Americans are able to bring back $400 worth of goods from Cuba—including $100 in cigars and rum.
Richard Feinberg reacts to the increasingly open ties between the United States and Cuba and discusses the implications for citizens in both counties.
10. 68 percent of Cuban-Americans favor normalized relations between Cuba and the U.S.
Katharine Moon also points out that 90 percent of younger Cuban-Americans favor normalization. The divergence between older hardliners and a conciliatory new generation is key in approaching other diplomatic challenges, such as re-evaluating relations with North Korea, she says.
There was exactly one topic on the minds of late-night hosts on Monday: Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin that left most everybody in the United States, including many high profile Republicans, pretty upset. And so Jimmy Kimmel, of course, led with this topic on his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” monologue on Monday nigh...
“Today was maybe the strangest of all 542 bizarre days of Donald Trump’s reign of error. Today may have been the weirdest,” Kimmel said. To help measure the weirdness, Kimmel used Trump’s pratfall-filled meeting with the Queen of England as the control, playing the clip of Trump inexplicably standing in front of her.
“But that turned out to be nothing compared to what happened in Finland this morning. Helsinki has frozen over,” Kimmel continued. “The president of the United States today publicly sided with Russia over our own FBI on the subject of cyber attacks on our election campaign. Trump had a meeting today with his KGBFF, Vla...
“Well, I guess that settles it,” Kimmel said. “There you go. If you’re wondering whether or not Vladimir Putin has an incriminating video of Donald Trump, we now know beyond a treasonable doubt that he does. He better.
You can watch Kimmel’s monologue from Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in the video embedded at the top of this post.
New research shows they're applied unevenly, and that faculty members who use them are viewed as unserious about their jobs.
Sonia Goltz was an assistant professor in the late 1980s, when the university she worked for didn't have very family-friendly policies. Despite a strong cultural current against the few female faculty having children, she went ahead and had her second child anyway.
Goltz returned to teaching a mere five days after giving birth, afraid that the university would "hold it against her" if she took a few weeks of leave. "I had to have an episiotomy so I had to go to class with a pillow for my first class," she explains.
Later, when Goltz was up for tenure, the university added a "stop the tenure clock" policy, which allows faculty to add time to their tenure track in order to compensate for lost productivity due to personal or family reasons. But Goltz was told she didn't qualify because only those up to three or four years into tenur...