There are recipes for every course of a meal, along with generous photos and even a story or two from Ina on how the recipe came to be. I enjoyed her practical take on French cooking, and found that I could make béarnaise sauce for the first time ever using her recipe.

For cooks that want to add a few French recipes to their repertoire, or fans of Ina Garten, you won’t be disappointed.

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Review: Barefoot in Paris

Every midwest mom has a different variation of this patriotic dessert. I like the one pictured, using chocolate cake and white icing. The constant in all of the recipes is that a flag is created on the top of the cake using blueberries for the stars and strawberries for the stripes. For some other Flag Cake ideas, see:

• Breyer’s Ice Cream Flag Cake
• Flag Cake with whipped cream from Cooks.com
• The Barefoot Contessa’s Flag Cake from the Food Network
• Flag Cake with Jello and marshmellows from Glenda’s Attic Blog

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Flag Cake for the Fourth of July