13 things you probably didn t know about Ina Garten
By emcdowell@businessinsider.com (Erin McDowell) of INSIDER |
13 things you probably didn t know about Ina Garten
Ina Garten is one of the most beloved and respected celebrity chefs in the world.
Garten honed her cooking skills by working her way through Julia Child s Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Ina Garten, also known as the Barefoot Contessa, is one of the most beloved and famous celebrity chefs in the business, despite having no professional training.
Before becoming a cookbook author and TV host, Garten lived in Washington, DC, and worked for the White House Office of Management and Budget. Her husband Jeffrey Garten encouraged her to pursue her passion for cooking, and the rest is history.
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This essay was originally published in Salon on March 21, 2020. We re revisiting Salon s Best Life Stories of 2020 now through the end of the year. Read more Best of 2020 here.
I write this from a rented cabin in rural Montana; it is February and the snow falls quietly, constantly. A hope philodendron stands in the window of the loft bedroom, the largest and healthiest I have ever seen in real life, almost five feet tall. The leaves are long, rippled hands grasping at an invisible sun, so enormous that they seem almost alien. The plant is beautiful, but it is more than that: its presence here in Montana, in the middle of winter, feels incongruous, inexplicable, and therefore magical. The hope philodendron, or
The Barefoot Contessa, 72, celebrated her anniversary with husband Jeffrey Garten, 74, on December 22
She shared a photo of them cutting their three-tiered cake at their 1968 wedding Fifty-two years and still having so much fun! she wrote
Ina met Jeffrey at age 15 while visiting her brother at college
In 2018, she celebrated their 50th anniversary with a week of posts