Barefoot Contessa

Ina Garden rocks her cooking is simple,tasty,and fun to make. I love making her deserts it's really easy. She talks the talks and walks the walks. I mean some other cooking shows the ingredients are really hard to find. But Ina recipes are easy and great. I mean her famous roast chicken are really tasty. I bought her book about 2 weeks ago and the recipes are easy. In her show I sometimes like to cook along with her. And I love cooking, Ina's show makes a big difference for new people who are trying to cook. Watch this show and love it. It has great ideas of cooking and you might learn something new. Like I learned a new way of how to set the table..................laugh out loud. But the point is she is a great host a chef and her cooking is of the hook.

I love Ina, I have all her books, I love her recipes, her home, her life - she is blessed and talented. She does tend to overuse certain words and phrases such as "...for a little heat," "...just give it a rough chop." and I would like to play a drinking game for every time she says "fabulous."

These positive reviews read like Ina and Jeffery wrote them on their own. The show is ridiculously yuppie upper class menu items. The one recipe my wife and I decided to make (the roasted chicken "historylover" claimed was amazing) tasted terrible and became garbage after tasting. Her snobby attitude projects itself amazingly, even through a television set. Every episode she spends half of it driving in her car buying some sort of "surprise dish for Jeffery", the other half of the episode is split between her actually cooking the bad food and showing off her giant home. Yes we get it, your rich and live rich. This is a the worst show on Food Network. If you want to watch a pretentious upper class snob cook food that would poison your dog, than it's perfect for you. Otherwise watch a chef who cooks food that wouldn't cost you a paycheck to supply the ingredients for. As for the reviewer Historylover, nice try Ina.

I'm a big fan of cooking shows -- nowadays, Jacques Pepin is the gold standard. His warm, gentle, lowkey approach to cooking is a breath of fresh air in an age of loud music, quick camera cuts, and hosts who try to hard to be celebrities.

That brings us to stink foot here. I've tried to watch her show more than once. It's nauseating because it's the opposite of Pepin. Here, you're constantly reminded about her, her life, her family, her privilege, etc. I get it. For people who identify with her, she's some kind of hero. But I watch a cooking show for the food and, you know, the cooking. A good editor can cut 50% of the "content" in her program and discover there's considerably less on actual cooking. I get, too, that she's trying to compete with Martha Stewart, but one of those is too many, too. So, as soon as I see her boring suburban mug, I have to switch the channel.

I love Ina! She's kind of a snob, but her food always looks excellent! Her house is fabulous and so is the garden! My family and I have made a few recipes and we weren't disappointed. I wonder why the Food Network never includes her in their specials though. I figure she's too good for them! I love that she's not a stick figure too! You can tell she's enjoying life! Her friends seem like they've known her for quite awhile and are always good sports. Some of the things she makes are not very practical, but that's OK. My sisters and I joke about what the perfect meal would be from her, and we always argue because there are so many to choose from!