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Ina Garten is most well-known for her Food Network show The Barefoot Contessa. She is an author as well as a former member of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. Garten had no formal training. She taught herself to cook using cookbooks. Cookbooks by Julie Child were among her favorite. Her career as a chef began with her gourmet food store, the Barefoot Contessa. She went on to write several cookbooks, magazine articles and she created her own “convenience products.”
