The #1 New York Times bestselling cookbook author and Emmy-winning host of Barefoot Contessa on the Food Network offers recipes for effortless entertaining and everyday meals in Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust.

Garten offers instructions for mapping out a “game plan” to ensure your meal is ready on time, plus foolproof tips for cooking and table settings.

Chapters include: Cocktails (sidecars with dried cherries), Starters (gazpacho & goat cheese croutons), Lunch (Israeli couscous & tuna salad), Dinner (salmon with melting cherry tomatoes), Vegetables (balsamic-roasted Brussels sprouts), and Desserts (pumpkin pie with rum whipped cream).

Garten will be in conversation with Bonnie Benwick, Interim Food Editor of The Washington Post.