
I was lucky enough to be in attendance when Garten held a talk for the launch of Cooking for Jeffrey in Brooklyn in 2016. A crowd member asked her, “What do you do when you f**k up a recipe?” She jokingly responded, “I never f**k up.” Of course she was joking—her actual advice was to either add salt and see how it tastes, or if all else fails, order pizza. But the takeaway was valuable: You’re going to make mistakes, so when it happens, accept it and move on.