Stratta was the original owner of the Barefoot Contessa gourmet food store in the Hamptons village of Westhampton Beach. She sold it in 1978 to celebrity chef and cookbook author Ina Garten, who is ...
Garten was living in Washington D.C. with her husband Jeffrey when she saw an ad for a small specialty food shop in The New York Times. She had recently completed a job working for the Office of ...
Ina Garten is all about using “good” ingredients on her cooking show, Barefoot Contessa. And, yes, that includes ones that are store-bought. Garten has plenty of recipes with chocolate as the star but ...