Barefoot Contessa

Barefoot Contessa is a cooking show on Food Network, hosted by the charming Ina Garten. Visit Ina in the luxurious Hamptons of New York City, for a lovely lesson in how to be a great host, cook well, and entertain with simplicity, style, and fun. There is something for entertainers and cooks of all different abilities, interests, and budgets. Ina shows to prepare, and pre-prepare, a variety of dishes across a large range of complexity in each episode. The dishes she chooses do not have to be fancy or complicated; they just have to be tasty and sure to please guests. The more complicated recipes, however, do often require an excursion to an East Hampton specialty food store, where the cameras follow Ina to watch her pick out the best of the best ingredients for her recipes. Ina Garten definitely knows about food, as even the title of the show attests to. The title Barefoot Contessa comes from Garten's best-selling cookbook, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which was named after the specialty food store she bought in 1978. MORE