She saw an ad for a specialty food store in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, drove five hours on a whim, and bought Barefoot Contessa. For Garten acolytes, the most shocking revelation of the ...
NEW YORK — Long before Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly.
But my favorite is her mocha icebox cake, which Garten said was so good it'd make "grown men weep." In her very first cookbook, "The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook," Ina Garten wrote that "a homemade ...