Barefoot Contessa hasn’t produced new episodes since 2021, and anyone who still has cable knows that Food Network doesn’t show Garten’s TV shows as often as we’d like. However, Garten recently announced that she’s working on new episodes for the cooking network.
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In 1978, Ina Garten found herself working in the White House on nuclear energy policy and thinking, “Theres got to be more to life than this!” She saw an ad for a small food store for sale in a place shed never been: the Hamptons at the end of Long Island. She and her husband drove up to investigate and made the owner an offer on the spot. Two months later she found herself the owner of Barefoot Contessa, a 400-sq. ft. specialty food store. 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 — including the host. Her follow-up cookbooks, Barefoot Contessa Family Style (2002), Barefoot in Paris (2004), Barefoot Contessa at Home (2006), Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics (2008), Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That? (2010) Barefoot Contessa Foolproof (2012), Make It Ahead (2014) and Cooking for Jeffrey (2016) all continue her style of cooking with easy, delicious, and foolproof recipes that you can make at home. In 2006, Ina and her business partner Frank Newbold started a successful line of Barefoot Contessa Pantry products, comprised of baking mixes and sauces developed from recipes in her cookbooks. Ina has been a columnist for Martha Stewart Living magazine, O, the Oprah magazine and House Beautiful magazine. Ina lives in East Hampton, N.Y., and Southport, Conn., with her husband Jeffrey, who is a professor at the Yale School of Management. Ina currently hosts Barefoot Contessa on Food Network.
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Are Bobby Flay and Ina Garten friends?
Is Martha Stewart friends with Ina Garten?
Why does Ina Garten go by Barefoot Contessa?
What happened to Ina Garten’s Food Network show?
Garten’s Food Network series-The Barefoot Contessa-began in 2002. But she says that when the network first offered her a TV show, she turned them down repeatedly. She says she told the network to “lose my number,” but they refused to give up.
Did Ina Garten tell the Food Network to ‘Lose my Number’?
Ina Garten has been a staple on The Food Network for two decades. But we came close to living in a world without The Barefoot Contessa on television. The beloved cooking and entertaining guru recently revealed that she originally told the network to “lose my number” when they offered her a contract.
Will Ina Garten have her own cooking show?
Ina Garten revealed she initially was hesitant to have her own cooking show on the Food Network. The cookbook author continued, “I said, ‘I’m not negotiating, I just don’t think I can do this.’” Executives were dismayed at Garten’s response and kept on pushing for her participation.
Does Ina Garten Cook on ‘Be my Guest’?
Garten fans, rejoice: Ina Garten is officially returning to Food Network with new episodes of her show Be My Guest. The show’s concept differs from Barefoot Contessa in that it features a celebrity who chats with Garten in a sit-down style of conversation; she doesn’t spend the whole show cooking (though we wouldn’t hate that).