She showed millions of foodies (us included) that it's possible to cook well and have fun doing it, thanks to her popular Food Network program Barefoot Contessa. And of course ... He packed his bag ...
NEW YORK — Long before Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly.
not least when in 1978 she spotted an ad in The New York Times and on a whim bought a little specialty food store in the Hamptons called Barefoot Contessa. At the time, she was 30, writing ...