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Dear Ina

Last night I had a nightmare that you invited a bunch of food bloggers to your house to hang out and swap cookies and that you didn’t invite me. Imagine the horror! But then I woke up and started reading Deb’s latest blog post and life screeched to a halt: you DID invite a bunch of food bloggers to your house to hang out and swap cookies! And you didn’t invite me!

Ina, do you realize how faithful I’ve been to you over the years? We’re talking almost a decade of me singing your praises. In January of 2004, I blogged about your tropical smoothie (ok I didn’t sing your praises in that post because I messed up the smoothie, but ignore that); in November of 2005, I made your orange pound cake WHICH I LOVED. There are TWO PAGES of Barefoot Contessa archives on my blog (including my most popular post of all time) and that hardly includes everything. Yesterday I posted a mac and cheese recipe and where did I get my inspiration? Your show. Mmmhmm.

Now, granted, your reaction to all this might be: “You’ve been stealing my recipes for years, why would I invite you over to my house!” Stealing is a strong word, Ina. I think “celebrating” is way more accurate. Also: have I mentioned that I’m a sophisticated gay male who would fit right in with your crowd of sophisticated gay male friends? Ok, I don’t have pastel shirts or pants and I don’t know how to string lights or make a flower arrangement. (Also, I’m not very sophisticated.) But you’re friends with Broadway directors Rob Marshall and Susan Stroman and, not to brag, but I directed a pretty amazing production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in college. My Rueben was hilarious (and also my boyfriend at the time).

Look, Ina, we all make mistakes. In fact, I’m guessing that this was some technical mix-up due to a frazzled intern forgetting to add my name to the list. (Please chain her up in the barn.) I want you to know that I can forgive you and move on from this if you promise that the next time you invite food bloggers to your house, you lose all their invitations and only invite me. And Susan Stroman. I want to show her my Joseph video.

Sincerely,
Adam Roberts
The Amateur Gourmet

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24 responses to “Dear Ina”

  1. Avatar
    Anonymous

    I’m sure it was just a horrible oversight!

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  2. bellini Avatar
    bellini

    An unfortunate oversight on her part Adam:D

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  3. Aly ~ Cooking In Stilettos Avatar
    Aly ~ Cooking In Stilettos

    In Ms. Ina’s defense, I don’t totally think she was in control of the guest list 😉 I think the mag needs to apologize for not including you in the mix because you definitely should have been there Adam!

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  4. Katie Rose Avatar
    Katie Rose

    As Michelle Tanner would say, “How rude!” I might just die if you and Ina ever did do something together – perhaps in your next book? 🙂

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  5. VL Avatar
    VL

    In all fairness, you did incorrectly spell “Contessa” in your tags 🙂

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  6. Melissa Avatar
    Melissa

    Don’t worry, Adam, you’re in good company. Besides, we love you. x

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  7. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    Seems like this is an example of food blogger sexism..notice how all of those invited were women food bloggers…

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    1. Jean Avatar
      Jean

      Well it was for Ladies’ Home Journal, so there’s that.

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  8. niche Avatar
    niche

    I can’t believe you weren’t invited. It seems like a major oversight on the part of the PR team. I watched her show before but actually bought one her books because of you not any other blogger. And yeah, Ina is super cool. Did you see the episodes she went to England? I was like, she went all the way there to buy table settings at a special shop that sells every possible table setting style possible. Amazing.

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  9. zEmfIrKa Avatar
    zEmfIrKa

    haha! this post just cracked me up 🙂 “how could you do this Ina?”

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  10. zEmfIrKa Avatar
    zEmfIrKa

    haha! this post just cracked me up 🙂 “how could you do this Ina?”

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  11. Kimberly Wydeen Avatar
    Kimberly Wydeen

    Hilarious! Is it sad that when I was reading Deb’s post, I actually thought of this blog? I chalked it up to Ina’s team inviting NYC and surrounding area bloggers only, but you might be right.

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  12. Chung Avatar
    Chung

    Ahaha! This post just made my day. Hilarious as always.

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  13. Pam Avatar
    Pam

    That’s so unfair Adam! You totally deserved to be the guest of honor at that cookie party. But I do love that you now have a ‘betrayal’ tag for your blog.

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  14. Julie @ Willow Bird Baking Avatar
    Julie @ Willow Bird Baking

    Is it totally rubbing it in to say I would’ve loved to meet you? 😉 Obviously your invitation just got lost in the mail. I love the tags for this post, by the way!

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  15. MC Avatar
    MC

    I think the post lost MY invitation. Can’t believe it either. The nerve.

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  16. Dana @ Foodie Goes Healthy Avatar
    Dana @ Foodie Goes Healthy

    I know, she’s one of my favs too.

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  17. MyCustardPie Avatar
    MyCustardPie

    It’s as clear as day. She is totally intimidated by your cookie baking prowess and didn’t feel she could live up to your very high standards.

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  18. Ilana Avatar
    Ilana

    Looks like you lack the essential lady parts.

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  19. erinalacarte Avatar
    erinalacarte

    you are hilarious

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  20. LaLa Avatar
    LaLa

    I love you Adam. I think it was an oversight. I love Ina, and hope it was just a mistake.Agreed, you’re too funny 🙂

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  21. helena Avatar
    helena

    this was ridiculously amazing.

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  22. Lydia Avatar
    Lydia

    I wasn’t invited either, so…. On the other hand, neither do I food blog, nor do I own many pans. I do, however, have an Ina Garten autographed apron hanging in my kitchen. How fabulous is that?

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  23. Keith Daniels Avatar
    Keith Daniels

    I think you were likely the unintended victim of The Barefoot Contessa’s miscommunicaton: Perhaps what happened was that Ina said to her husband Jeffrey to drop off your invitation at the post office; and the latter simply misunderstood and instead of dropping it off at the P.O. dropped the invite as part of a handful of invites onto the floor. Frankly, I would blame all or most of this on some personal assistant of The Contessa (That is probably who will get the blame for this goof of sorts anyway!!). 🙂 🙂 🙂

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