Ina Garten Superfan Is Cooking His Way Through All Her Recipes

Trent & Ina is the Barefoot Contessa edition of Julie & Julia

In Julie & Julia, a blogger set out to cook dinner just about every recipe from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Now, there’s one more household cook in search of to do the exact with Ina Garten’s recipes, and he’s presently tackled much more than 1,000 of her dishes.

Trent Pheifer, a nonprofit employee who life in New York, has been operating his challenge “Store Bought Is Fine” because October 10, 2015. On his blog site and an Instagram account with additional than 31,000 followers, he paperwork his recreations of the Barefoot Contessa’s dishes, desserts, and drinks (alongside with the occasional Photoshop of himself future to Garten).

Pheifer offers credit to this job for sharpening his culinary and pictures competencies. He has also managed to catch the eye of Garten herself as he explained to City & Place last yr, he after ran into the Contessa and her partner Jeffrey in Paris, and Garten previously realized who he was.

At the level that he’s cooking — 4 to 5 recipes a 7 days — Pheifer will have worked his way as a result of each individual solitary Garten development by this time future year. “The finish of this will be bittersweet. It is been 5 yrs of my lifestyle. But I’m psyched for the following chapter,” he tells Food stuff52.

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