specialty food store in Westhampton Beach, NY," Garten wrote on a saturated photograph of a small, white-paneled shop. In the photo, you can see the shop's name, Barefoot Contessa, which would ...

Fast forward to 2002, and the "store-bought is fine" chef had published two more cookbooks and landed herself a show on Food Network called "Barefoot Contessa." While her story contains many ups ...

before owning Barefoot Contessa, even before cooking, Ina Garten worked as a nuclear policy analyst at the White House. In fact, when she bought her specialty food store in the Hamptons in 1978 ...