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Growing inspiration

. Home cooks aspire to toss together

meals with the same ease and simplicity as Ina Garten, host of Food Network’s

Barefoot Contessa

and author of six cookbooks. But where does Ina get her

inspiration? She steps right out her back door into her garden, where the

colors, scents, and flavors spark her culinary creativity.

BY KAREN WEIR-JIMERSON PHOTOS QUENTIN BACON PRODUCED BY NANCY WALL HOPKINS

FOOD STYLING JEE LEVIN PROP STYLING PHILIPPA BRATH WAITE