About me
Ina Garten, the celebrated specialty food store maven and bestselling cookbook author, was once a nuclear budget analyst at President Carter’s White House. Garten left Washington, DC in 1978 to buy a 400 sq. ft. store called Barefoot Contessa in the Hamptons – eighteen years later, Barefoot Contessa had grown to a 3,000 sq. ft. store in East Hampton, New York and Garten decided it was time to shake things up. She sold the store to her chef and manager and began to write cookbooks. Ina Garten’s first book, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, was published in 1999 and was one of the bestselling cookbooks of the year. She has since gone on to write thirteen phenomenally successful cookbooks, including Barefoot Contessa Parties!, Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Barefoot in Paris, Barefoot Contessa at Home, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Barefoot Contessa, How Easy is That?, Barefoot Contessa Foolproof, Make It Ahead, Cooking for Jeffrey (named the bestselling print cookbook of 2016 by Publishers Weekly), Cook Like a Pro, and Modern Comfort Food. Her latest cookbook is Go-To Dinners (Clarkson Potter, Oct 25, 2022). She is currently working on her next cookbook. Her bestselling memoir is Be Ready When the Luck Happens (Crown, October 01, 2024).
