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The story of how Food Network<\/a> host Ina Garten<\/a> turned often called the Barefoot Contessa is a humorous one: Garten\u2019s Barefoot Contessa<\/a><\/em> TV present is called after her Barefoot Contessa<\/em> cookbooks, which in flip had been named after her Barefoot Contessa meals shops.<\/p>\n But Garten, now 74, didn\u2019t give you the title; the primary retailer\u2019s unique proprietor did. \u201cShe had been called that when she was a kid, after the movie with Ava Gardner [1954\u2019s The Barefoot Contessa<\/em>],\u201d Garten informed MSNBC\u2019s Willie Guest in September, per Insider<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThe family used to call her the Barefoot Contessa; it was her nickname.\u201d<\/p>\n And, as you\u2019ll see under, Garten initially wished to rename her retailer. With Food Network\u2019s Barefoot Contessa<\/em> turning 20 \u2014 having premiered on November 20, 2002, with the episode \u201cThe Mediterranean Feast\u201d \u2014 we\u2019re rounding up enjoyable info about Garten\u2019s path to cooking-show fame.<\/p>\n And Ina married him at age 20. Jeffrey, a frequent presence on Barefoot Contessa<\/em>, later turned a managing director of Lehman Brothers, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade within the Clinton administration, and a professor and dean on the Yale School of Management. \u201cReally sweet, kind, funny, smart, supportive, just everything you could ever dream of,\u201d Ina stated of Jeffrey in a 2015 interview with CBS News<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI mean, here we are 50 years later. And I just feel that much more about it!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Jeffrey and I first got married, we lived in North Carolina \u2014 I was still in college \u2014 and across the street was a small airport, and so I went across the street and I found the people who were training pilots, and I said, \u2018I\u2019d like to learn how to fly a plane,\u2019\u201d Garten recounted on The Drew Barrymore Show<\/a><\/em> earlier this month. \u201cAnd they said to me, \u2018I\u2019m sorry, we don\u2019t have anybody here that would teach a woman how to fly an airplane.\u2019 [I said] \u2018Well, then find somebody.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Garten additionally shared that on one memorable event, she didn\u2019t notice she needed to ask permission for a taxiway and she or he almost collided with a helicopter on the tarmac.<\/p>\nShe met husband Jeffrey Garten when she was 15 years outdated<\/h2>\n
She turned a pilot in faculty<\/h2>\n