Twenty years later, Barefoot Contessa grew to a 3,000-square-foot food emporium where twenty cooks and bakers prepared the food. Twenty-five more employees worked in the store helping thousands of customers to choose breads, salads, dinners and baked goods to take home. In 1996, Ina sold the store to her employees. In 2003, the new owners of Barefoot Contessa decided to close their doors and go on to new adventures.
In 1999, Ina wrote her first book, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which was one of the best-selling cookbooks of the year. The book invites readers into her specialty food store and shares the recipes that made it such a success. In 2001, Ina followed with best-selling Barefoot Contessa Parties! in which she invites readers into her home and shares her ideas and recipes for having parties that are fun for all
In 1999, Ina wrote her first book, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which was one of the best-selling cookbooks of the year. The book invites readers into her specialty food store and shares the recipes that made it such a success. In 2001, Ina followed with best-selling Barefoot Contessa Parties! in which she invites readers into her home and shares her ideas and recipes for having parties that are fun for all
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by Josh Sharpe - September 30, 2025
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AN EVENING WITH INA GARTEN Comes to Massey Hall in February 2026
by A.A. Cristi - June 24, 2025
Massey Hall will welcome cultural icon Ina Garten aka The Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks and Food Network sensation on Thursday, February 12, 2026....
Ina Garten is Coming to The Fisher Theatre in February 2026
by A.A. Cristi - June 23, 2025
Ina Garten (aka the Barefoot Contessa) is the author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, a beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon, with millions of followers in the US and abroad. She will make a stop at Detroit's Fisher Theatre Thursday, February 26 at 7:30 p.m....
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by Josh Sharpe - August 28, 2024
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by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 30, 2024
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by Josh Sharpe - June 27, 2024
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by A.A. Cristi - June 03, 2024
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Charles W. Eisemann Center For Performing Arts Announces EISEMANN CENTER PRESENTS Lineup For 2024-2025 Season
by A.A. Cristi - May 17, 2024
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AN EVENING WITH INA GARTEN Comes to the Eisemann Center in October
by Stephi Wild - April 12, 2024
Eisemann Center Presents starts off the 2024-2025 Season with Be Ready When the Luck Happens: An Evening Conversation with Ina Garten on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at 7:30 pm in the Hill Performance Hall (the remainder of the season will be announced in May). ...
An Evening with Ina Garten Comes to The Bushnell in December
by Stephi Wild - April 10, 2024
The Bushnell announced today that popular author and Food Network personality Ina Garten aka the Barefoot Contessa will serve up a satisfying evening of conversation on Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30 PM at The Bushnell. ...
Ina Garten Comes to BAM to Discuss Her New Memoir This October
by Stephi Wild - April 09, 2024
To celebrate her long-awaited memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens (Crown / Penguin Random House, Oct 2024), best-selling author, television personality, and cultural icon Ina Garten will take the stage at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House on October 15 to reflect on her path to success and recount ...
Ina Garten's BE MY GUEST Returning to Food Network in April
by Michael Major - March 22, 2024
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by Gil Kaan - April 10, 2023
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by Michael Major - January 26, 2023
Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, is back with new episodes of her multiplatform series Be My Guest with Ina Garten. Kicking off with a visit from renown ballerina Misty Copeland, upcoming guests also include actor, director and author Stanley Tucci, stage and screen actress Laura Linney and Grammy...
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by Michael Major - September 15, 2022
Ina serves Nathan Lane a taste of nostalgia with her Rum Raisin Rice Pudding recipe, and they discuss his childhood, personal life and show business career from the early years to his prolific roles on stage and screen. She also gives cooking-novice Nathan a lesson in making Mussels with Saffron Cre...
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by Michael Major - May 05, 2022
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Ina Garten Announces New BE MY GUEST Food Network Series
by Michael Major - February 17, 2022
The new series is structured with three distinct versions: an hour-long extended cut on discovery+, food-centric half-hour on Food Network at 12pm ET/PT and a companion podcast. The series' season one guests include Julianna Margulies, Erin French, Willie Geist, Rob Marshall, and John DeLuca....
Ina Garten Expands Relationship with Discovery Inc. Across All Platforms with Multi-Year Deal
by Michael Major - October 18, 2021
The deal expands Garten’s reach even beyond her wildly popular Barefoot Contessa franchise with projects in the works for streaming, linear and podcasts. Her inaugural project under the deal is Be My Guest (WT), a new series in development for 2022 with a fresh take on Ina’s signature style of w...
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by Sarah Jae Leiber - March 09, 2021
The conversation culminates in a virtual dream double-date with Ina and her husband Jeffrey and Melissa and her husband, Ben Falcone, answering fan questions from Instagram. ...
COCKTAILS AND TALL TALES With Ina Garten and Melissa McCarthy Exclusively Available on Discovery Plus
by Sarah Jae Leiber - January 26, 2021
Daytime Emmy Award-winning host, Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, and Primetime Emmy Award-winning actress, writer and producer Melissa McCarthy have long been fans of one another from afar. Now the two are finally getting to meet, virtually that is....
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by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 06, 2020
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by A.A. Cristi - June 25, 2020
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