Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again

New York: Clarkson Potter, 2006. SIGNED Bookplate. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Ina Garten on a Jessica's Biscuits Cookbooks bookplate on the front endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Light corner crease to page 137. Color photos and recipes throughout. The dust jacket is unclipped ($35.00) with just a hint of shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 256 pages. 7½ x 10¼" tall.

Ina offers the tried-and-true recipes that she makes over and over again because they're easy, they work, and they're universally loved. For a leisurely Sunday breakfast, she has Easy Cheese Danishes or Breakfast Fruit Crunch to serve with the perfect Spicy Bloody Mary. For lunch, she has classics with a twist, such as Tomato, Mozzarella, and Pesto Paninis and Old-Fashioned Potato Salad, which are simply delicious. Then there are Ina's homey dinners-from her own version of loin of pork stuffed with sauteed fennel to the exotic flavors of Eli's Asian Salmon. And since Ina knows no one ever forgets what you serve for dessert, she includes recipes for outrageously luscious sweets like Peach and Blueberry Crumble, Pumpkin Mousse Parfait, and Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing.

Ina also lets readers in on her time-tested secrets for cooking and entertaining. Get the inside scoop on everything from what Ina considers when she's designing a kitchen to menu-planning basics and how to make a dinner party fun (here's a hint: it doesn't involve making complicated food!). Along with beautiful photographs of Ina's dishes, her home, and the East Hampton she loves, this book is filled with signature recipes that strike the perfect balance between elegance and casual comfort.