{"id":32458,"date":"2018-10-28T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T08:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=32458"},"modified":"2018-10-28T08:56:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T08:56:03","slug":"ina-garten-says-shed-serve-president-donald-trump-a-subpoena-for-dinner-if-she-was-hosting-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=32458","title":{"rendered":"Ina Garten Says She&rsquo;d Serve President Donald Trump &lsquo;a Subpoena&rsquo; For Dinner If She Was Hosting&nbsp;Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/ina-garten\">Ina Garten<\/a> is imparting fans a intimate about her political beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>During an on-stage interview with The New York Times&rsquo; Frank Bruni on Thursday, the Food Network star answered questions about cooking, reputation, pop culture, and politics and the upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a jam-packed audience at the <a href=\"\/\/www.92y.org\/\">92Y in New York City<\/a>, Bruni told the celebrity chef that they would be talking about politics &ldquo;in a extremely neutered, safe way&rdquo; and asked Garten, who was promoting her brand-new cookbook <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/food\/ina-garten-barefoot-contessa-cook-like-a-pro-cookbook-recipe-salad\/\">Cook Like a Pro<\/a>, if she thought people are devouring differently because of the political mood in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Garten&rsquo;s response: &ldquo;I think there&rsquo;s been examines that people who are Republicans eat certain ways and Democrat feed certain ways, &rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I think it was something in The Daily, there was a study that said Republican tend to be more meat and potatoes, and, I entail, plainly it&rsquo;s not everyone, and Democrat tend to eat more ethnic food &#8230; more interested in more challenging things.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> RELATED: <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/food\/ina-garten-roast-chicken-recipe-meghan-markle-prince-harry\/\">Ina Garten Calls Her Roast Chicken Recipe That Meghan Markle Made for Prince Harry&#8217; Powerful&rsquo;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Bruni followed up with a identify association play, where he tossed out the call of a prominent legislator and questioned Garten to suggest a dish she would serve him or her for dinner. &ldquo;Well, first, I merely invite people I enjoy, &rdquo; joked Garten, before playing along.<\/p>\n<p>First up was <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-dna-test-part-native-american-trump-pocahontas\/\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, to which Garten responded: &ldquo;Something really simple like a pasta. Oh, she&rsquo;s from Massachusetts so the government had lobster, so I&rsquo;d do lobster mac and cheese.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Second, <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/politics\/who-is-beto-o-rourke-texas-senate-ted-cruz\/\">Senate candidate Beto O&rsquo;Rourke<\/a>: &ldquo;Hmm, Texas. Love him. Maybe like a slow-roasted pork shoulder, something a little Texas. It&rsquo;s one of my favorite dinners, actually. And maple baked beans, and make it a little modern with a little kale salad and some cornbread, &rdquo; she answered.<\/p>\n<p>Third, <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/food\/joe-biden-ayesha-curry-international-smoke-ice-cream\/\">former vice president Joe Biden<\/a>: &ldquo;Something merriment! Something you need to eat with your hands. I have a big clam cook, &rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s lobster and clams and prawn and sausage and potatoes. And I just dump a huge bowl in the middle and everyone merely has to roll up their sleeves and simply dig in. Wouldn&rsquo;t Joe Biden like that? &rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> RELATED: <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/food\/ina-garten-jeffrey-cute-photos-instagram\/\">The Cutest Photos of Ina Garten and Her Husband Jeffrey Through the Years<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And, ultimately, President <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>: &ldquo;A subpoena, &rdquo; she soon answered, as she and the crowd burst into laugh. &ldquo;Is that political? &rdquo; Garten asked with a laughter as the audience applauded.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED VIDEO: Ina Garten Uncovers the Only Fast Food She&rsquo;ll Eat:&#8217; It Was Julia Child&rsquo;s Favorite Too&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bruni continued the theme of politics, questioning Garten what she plans to eat for dinner on Nov. 6, the night of the midterm elections. &ldquo;Well it depends on how it&rsquo;s running, &rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It could either be a pint of Haagen Dazs or I don&rsquo;t know, what&rsquo;s my favorite dinner? <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/food\/ina-garten-jeffrey-roast-chicken-recipe-radishes\/\">Roast chicken .<\/a>&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Before Garten became a household name as a Food Network star, she was a nuclear-budget analyst at the Office of Management and Budget in Washington ,  D.C ., under the Jimmy Carter Administration&#8211;a career path t<a href=\"\/\/people.com\/food\/ina-garten-husband-jeffrey-marriage-50th-anniversary\/\">hat was inspired by her husband Jeffrey<\/a>, who was working at the State Department.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/food\/ina-garten-president-donald-trump-subpoena\/\">people.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ina Garten is imparting fans a intimate about her political beliefs. During an on-stage interview with The New York Times&rsquo; Frank Bruni on Thursday, the Food Network star answered questions about cooking, reputation, pop culture, and politics and the upcoming midterm elections. In front of a jam-packed audience at the 92Y in New York City, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,348,17151,17152,1171,1041],"class_list":["post-32458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-food","tag-food-news","tag-ina-garten","tag-news","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ina-garten-tout1540716966.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}