This is what happens when I watch too much Food Network. I get all worked up. Worked up about people like Ina Garten.
Roar! You chap my ass, Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa! I can think of at least 10 reasons why, just off the top of my head:
- She worked for the White House.
- You know she worked for the White House because she finds a reason to mention it in every show.
- She has every single kitchen appliance ever made, freely available and brand spanking new.
- Her laugh could not be more artificial if it were explicitly spelled out on a cue card (”Ina, laugh now, it sounds like this when a human laughs: A-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh!”) and shown to her.
- She writes her husband into the show, the only person on earth who is possibly more boring than she is.
- At the end of every episode they make it look like the only thing she can talk about is her own cooking, as she reviews the entire menu and how everything was made with her pitiable dinner guests.
- Her show assumes that the average person can reach into their fridge and find five or six independent varieties of lettuce available.
- Her website sucks.
- She did a whole season from France, because we can all use more guidance about how to shop in the street markets of Paris.
- I hate her so much.
Boo!
I can’t agree with you more. This show is so contrived and unnatural; it makes me want to puke. Her nervous laugh is just one horrible variable in the equation that is The Barefoot Contessa. Thanks so much for spelling it out for the rest of us in a concise list!
December 13th, 2006, at 1:30 pm #I hated Ina Garten, then I switched to liking her, but as I noticed some things she was saying in her shows (when you could hear her!), I got really turned off.
If I see one more show from France I’m going to puke! French cuisine is *not* the be all and end all of food (and France is definitely not the height of everything cultural!). I’ve heard a few digs at Italy, which I really didn’t appreciate (hey, Ina, wanna tell your viewers who taught the French to eat with utensils, and if it’s not Catherine de Medici {from Italia!} you’d be wrong).
Her recipies are very extravagant, expensive, and time-consuming to make.
The Food Network needs to realize the majority of us don’t have hours on end to spend making something we’ll scarf down in 5 minutes.
January 8th, 2007, at 1:53 am #I bet I hate her more than you do. Your description of her laugh, though, is frighteningly accurate.
June 27th, 2007, at 1:06 pm #An ogress who eats little children off- camera. Had to exterminate her kitchen once - filled with roaches.
July 9th, 2007, at 8:20 pm #I dont even call her ina (my mom calls her in a garden)I call her barefoot. God I hate that lard on! Her slow manley voice! and when she stops talking you can hear her loud obese breathing, but the thing I hate about her most is she pulls out the big automatic juicer just to juice a half of a lemon then she takes out that huge expensive mixer (just to show she can offord it) to mix things she could mix with a spoon! She could lose those extra calories. And why is she always walking on the beach? What happened to her shoes anyway? OH MY GOD Barefoots on! RUN!!! And there is the juicer!!! A-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh! That picture scared me
July 14th, 2007, at 12:47 pm #i think that her programme is very good, i know she laughs at everything and anything, but dosnt her food look so good and tempting just to go out and make it, and really if you hate her so much why do you continue to watch her well
October 4th, 2007, at 12:11 pm #ha ha ha ha ha h a, that was my contessa laugh
it’s sad you think she’s artificial and annoying, because it seems just the opposite to me…she’s sweet and honest and she & her husband are cute together. just because someone might laugh differently than you’re used to doesn’t make them phony.
November 9th, 2007, at 12:33 am #I completely agree. Her morbid obesity is sickening, the electric juicer makes her appear even more ostentatious than usual, and highlighting her loveless marriage/dolt of a husband (”Ina asked me to buy spinach … I wonder which it is … .”) in the show is a horrible idea.
January 10th, 2008, at 1:50 pm #I really have a thing for fat / “obese” women such as Ina, but there is no way after watching her show that I could entertain the thought of “entertaining” her for a minute. That laugh almost made me Elvis the TV last time I heard it, and that bizzarro relationship she seems to have with her husband has her butter separating in my stomach….
January 24th, 2008, at 10:52 pm #She gives BBWs a bad rap!
Will somebody PLEASE slap her when she does that stupid ridiculous fake laugh??? It’s more annoying than watching her boring@$$ husband talk. What does her balding grayhaired husband have to do with cooking? Ya Ina, you have a husband! WEEE! Like she’s the only person on earth that’s married. Nobody cares! I also think she’s a major lush! In every episode she constantly drinks through the whole show, and I don’t mean just a *sip*, she drinks the whole glass. Nobody wants to watch a fat drunk with a fake laugh on TV. I’m also not going to spend $50-$60 on things I need to prepare one of her meals when I can get the same thing at a restaurant for less than $10-15 plus I won’t have to wash or cook anything. Ridiculous show!
February 17th, 2008, at 2:38 pm #