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Ina Garten Prefers This Variety Of Lentils For Her Soups By Maria Scinto Sept. 27, 2025 1:00 pm EST

Ina Garten began her culinary career as the proprietor of a fancy food store in the high-rent Hamptons, so it's only natural that she's super-picky when it comes to choosing her ingredients. Her olive oil has to be Olio Santo , her butter must be from Cabot Creamery , and her lentils can only be French. (Naturellement! Quel horreur if she had to use basic brown ones.)

French lentils are known for having a slightly peppery taste, especially the ones grown in the Puy region. Garten enjoys them because of their texture, though. They are quite tiny — perhaps a third the size of the more standard brown or green lentils — but they are much firmer, and their extra

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