Ina-Garten

Ina Garten is known as a well-known American cookbook author for many years. Ina is also the Emmy-winning host of Food Networks longest running show Barefoot Contessa, which started in 2002. Ina started her career creating nuclear energy policies as well as budgets to the White House. Though she found the career interesting initially, she eventually stopped her pursuit and bought a tiny specialty store called Barefoot Contessa. After nearly 18 years of making the business a massive success, she decided to sell it and started writing her first book. A number of different cookbooks and magazines came later. Between them the Food Network show was also a success. Additionally, she offers everything from cooking equipment to items and even containers. Ina she has not attended any cookery school or worked in a restaurant and she is completely self-taught. Her name is associated with her casual style of making food and hosting. Some of her best known recipes are Skillet-Roasted Lemon Chicken Beatty's Chocolate Cake Mac and Cheese Beef Bourguignon Balsamic-Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Lemon Bars.