Barefoot Contessa

And then we're going to do a little bit of frosting.

I've got the Barefoot Contessa using the cheapest spoon she's ever held-

[laughs]

... as a spatula.

'Cause it does say she has a...

What she w- what would take her by Nash's is a Barefoot Contessa cookbook she ordered waiting for her at the bookstore.

So, uh, uh, that's, those seem like red herrings.

Like, she, that's something she probably did the day before she died, and she still thinks she has to do it.

I love it.

I was like, I was like I'm in a car with, you know, the Barefoot Contessa, and I'm like, "Yeah, I cook."

I- [laughs]

Like, it's just crazy.

Ina Garten is a cookbook author and a Food Network host.

Her culinary career began with her gourmet food store, Barefoot Contessa.

I was first interested in her as a subject after that podcast appearance, and I just didn't expect someone so established to... be as like well-rounded and natural as she was.

So to start, she kind of mentions that her upbringing was rough.

I'm kind of the host.

Yeah.

You would have invented that if the Barefoot Contessa had stayed in nuclear legislation or whatever.

The Barefoot Contessa walked so that I could also walk.

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Hello.

So Kate, something I didn't know about you is you're an avid gardener and cook, and you just got to do something that must have been an honor of a lifetime.

You were on the inaugural episode of the new podcast from the Barefoot Contessa herself.

Oh my

No, no, no. She's out in the sun.

And she's also talking about stalking the Barefoot Contessa, which that always makes me laugh.

I mean, Eric is famous.

You should probably just talk to her.

Actually, I'm sure if I know any food personality, Barefoot Contessa, she would be like, come on over for dinner.

She's always making those huge meals.

And I'm like, who are these for? And then it's for my son and his friends.

That is my extent of knowledge about her.

And this kind of does a really good job where like she kind of goes through how she started like Barefoot Contessa.

Contessa, you know, like she took a chance and it was just like a whole bunch of circumstances where she just took like these crazy opportunities and chances that were like...

I would have never in a lifetime would have done it.