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    Ina Garten celebrates the 48th anniversary of leaving her job as a nuclear budget analyst at the White House to open the Barefoot Contessa specialty food store, which would eventually lead to her success in television and cookbooks
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    Ina Garten celebrates the 48th anniversary of leaving her job as a nuclear budget analyst at the White House to open the Barefoot Contessa specialty food store, which would eventually lead to her success in television and cookbooks


    Ina Garten celebrates the 48th anniversary of leaving her job as a nuclear budget analyst at the White House to open the Barefoot Contessa specialty food store, which would eventually lead to her success in television and cookbooks

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    2. Right-Guava2856 on

      watching her show on the food Network in the early 2000s, I had no idea about any of this

    6. NutsForBaseballButts on

      She’s definitely one of the ones that inspired my love of cooking

    8. FreudianNegligee on

      Love Ina because she is always encouraging and meets people where they are when it comes to cooking… it sounds like a small thing, but her advice to always use GOOD-QUALITY olive oil was a complete life-changer for home cooks like me!

    9. thesentienttoadstool on

      If I had a nickel for every time a high security government employee eventually became a popular tv chef, I’d have two nickels but it’s weird that it happened twice. 

    11. lilliesofthevalley44 on

      This is really interesting considering the time period of women having jobs like the one she left

    12. Holiday_Dig_4966 on

      Cooking her beef both union today. I thought it would eve a complete washout so I planned something indoors. What a treat to be cooking this in light of this post.