The Best Recipes from Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Before the Hamptons dinner parties became iconic, there was The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook: Ina’s first book, full of the generous, crowd-pleasing food that made people fall in love with her in the first place. I cooked all 1,300+ Ina Garten recipes in no particular order over the six years of the project, but I did decide to complete each cookbook in the order it was released starting with The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook which I finished just in time for the 20th anniversary of its release. Now it’s hard to believe Ina has been part of our lives since 1999! This is the book that started it all, and it’s an absolute classic. It features so many of the recipes Ina was known for from her days running the Barefoot Contessa specialty food store in East Hampton. It also includes her first roast chicken, a dish that would become synonymous with Ina over the years. Browsing through the book, you realize Ina has always been authentically herself: generous platters, unfussy entertaining, really…