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If there’s one one that can get us by these unprecedented instances, it’s Ina Garten.

As destiny would have it, the discharge of Garten’s newest cookbook Trendy Consolation Meals ($21; Amazon.com) simply so occurs to coincide with some of the troublesome durations in trendy historical past. Amid a lethal pandemic, social unrest, and political discord, the Barefoot Contessa’s easy, healthful method to consolation meals feels just like the salve our souls have been craving.

The opening line units the tone for Trendy Consolation Meals’s restorative capabilities:

“I usually say which you could be depressing earlier than consuming a cookie and you’ll be depressing after consuming a cookie, however you possibly can by no means be depressing when you’re consuming a cookie.”

And as Garten defined to NPR: “There are occasions when , you are feeling like a very good salad, however not now.”

The Meals Community star knew her new cookbook could be launched proper earlier than the election and anticipated that People could be pressured.

“So, I believed, why don’t I do one thing about consolation meals? However like with a contemporary twist, and that’s the way it began,” she recalled to NPR.

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In her mission to convey us the comforting recipes we’d like, Garten revisited the flavors from her childhood and set about enhancing them.

“I simply took a remembered taste that was acquainted. And I simply thought, how can I make it higher? How can I make it simpler to make?” she defined.

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That course of is how she got here to create a good higher model of the final word feel-good meals: tomato soup.

“I simply stated, OK, how can I make higher tomato soup? So, I did it with somewhat saffron and I did it with a splash of cream. So, it was somewhat richer,” Garten informed NPR.

Yum.

Trendy Consolation Meals, which is offered for buy now, consists of 85 new to fulfill cravings of every kind—from Smashed Hamburgers with Caramelized Onion to Banana Rum Trifle.