Relating to luxurious libations, you may be below the idea that the Barefoot Contessa has tried all of it — however there’s one basic cocktail that she had by no means sipped till not too long ago: a martini. Sure, actually.
On March 1, People shared a first look on the subsequent episode “Be My Guest with Ina Garten” on Meals Community and discovery+ the place Stanley Tucci serves Garten her first martini ever.
The cooking present, in its third season, will later welcome visitors like Norah Jones and Misty Copeland, however for this season’s second episode, premiering March 5, Garten welcomes the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning actor to share a meal, a drink and loads of dialog.
The clip opens with Garten displaying Tucci a dish she ready upfront: her Oysters Rockefeller.
“I made oysters as a result of I perceive you’re making martinis, is that proper?” Garten asks.
When Tucci replies within the affirmative, Garten breaks the fourth wall and tells the viewers. “How jealous are you?” (Very Ina, very.)
After explaining that she thinks oysters pair effectively with martinis, Garten makes a shocking admission to Tucci.
“Let me inform you a secret: I’ve by no means had a martini in my life,” she says, to Tucci’s astonishment.
“Jeez, you gotta get out extra,” he jokes.
“I had a whole lot of cocktails, however I haven’t had an actual martini,” Garten explains, laughing. (She has, although, had a cranberry martini — a recipe she’s shared on TODAY.)
Though Garten often shares cocktail recipes, the Contessa solely appears to have loved different drinks in her greater than 20 years on TV. Significantly noteworthy, nevertheless, is Garten’s use throughout quarantine of a large martini glass in a video that has since turn out to be a popular meme. Nonetheless, that enormous martini glass was crammed to the brim with a Cosmopolitan (effectively, many Cosmopolitans).
Understanding that that is Garten’s first martini, Tucci tells her that he received’t make the cocktail “tremendous dry” which refers back to the quantity of vermouth in a cocktail.
Including 3/4 ounce of white vermouth to a cocktail mixing glass with ice, Tucci then pours 4 ounces of gin to make two servings, then notably doesn’t shake the cocktail, however stirs it as a substitute.
“Stirring offers it a barely extra delicate style,” Tucci explains. “You don’t get any of the little items of ice.”
“So, I’ll at all times bear in mind who I had my first martini with,” Garten says with amusing, whereas grabbing two chill martini glasses from the freezer, prepared for the ending touches, which Tucci grabs.
“You realize what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna put a lemon and an olive in mine. Sure, I’m grasping,” Tucci says, encouraging Garten to place no matter she desires in hers, besides “pineapple” or “a meatball,” they joke. The gracious host opts for each garnishes like her visitor.
“Kiss me goodnight,” Garten says as she picks up her glass, to which Tucci jokes, “Properly, we’ll should shut the cameras off” — and that is earlier than they’ve even had something to drink.
After taking a sip of her first martini, the Barefoot Contessa’s verdict arrives.
“That’s beautiful,” she says. “I assumed it was gonna be sheer alcohol, however it’s not.”
“That’s beautiful, isn’t it?” Tucci says, referring to the martini, however may be referring to the chemistry of a pleasing interview.
