I don’t know anything about Ina Garten, but the kid’s family going to the press to attempt to smear her is really tacky.
I read it as if the family member was a relative of someone at TMZ and that that relative was associated with Make-A-Wish.
The press is going after her (Ina Garten) because she’s an awful rude person who mistreats the media worse than she abuses her fans.
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Originally employed as a low-level government aide, Ina Garten climbed the political ladder to the Office of Management and Budget and was assigned the position of budget analyst, which entailed writing the nuclear energy budget and policy papers on nuclear centrifuge plants for Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Garten left her government job in 1978 after spotting an ad for a 400-square-foot specialty food store in Westhampton Beach, New York. The store was named Barefoot Contessa. “My job in Washington was intellectually exciting and stimulating but it wasn’t me at all,” she told The New York Times four years later. She made a hasty decision to purchase the store after traveling to view it, and moved to New York to assume ownership and management. The store had been named by its original owner in tribute to the 1954 film starring Ava Gardner; Garten kept the name when she took over, as it meshed well with her idea of an “elegant but earthy” lifestyle.
Her husband, Jeffrey Garten, went on to become the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration from 1995 to 2005 and dean of the Yale School of Management. He is now the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business at Yale. He can also frequently be seen on her cooking show, assisting his wife with simple tasks or sampling the dishes she has created.
After Johns Hopkins, Garten worked in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. He then went on to Wall Street, becoming a managing director of Lehman Brothers[1] and the Blackstone Group. At Lehman, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America. He also lived in Tokyo and directed and expanded the Asian investment banking business for that firm. At Blackstone he worked in the financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions arena.
The Gartens live in Southport, Connecticut, and East Hampton, New York.
They divide their time between Manhattan, East Hampton, and Paris.
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Originally employed as a low-level government aide, Ina Garten climbed the political ladder to the Office of Management and Budget and was assigned the position of budget analyst, which entailed writing the nuclear energy budget and policy papers on nuclear centrifuge plants for Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Garten left her government job in 1978 after spotting an ad for a 400-square-foot specialty food store in Westhampton Beach, New York. The store was named Barefoot Contessa. “My job in Washington was intellectually exciting and stimulating but it wasn’t me at all,” she told The New York Times four years later. She made a hasty decision to purchase the store after traveling to view it, and moved to New York to assume ownership and management. The store had been named by its original owner in tribute to the 1954 film starring Ava Gardner; Garten kept the name when she took over, as it meshed well with her idea of an “elegant but earthy” lifestyle.
Her husband, Jeffrey Garten, went on to become the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration from 1995 to 2005 and dean of the Yale School of Management. He is now the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business at Yale. He can also frequently be seen on her cooking show, assisting his wife with simple tasks or sampling the dishes she has created.
After Johns Hopkins, Garten worked in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. He then went on to Wall Street, becoming a managing director of Lehman Brothers[1] and the Blackstone Group. At Lehman, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America. He also lived in Tokyo and directed and expanded the Asian investment banking business for that firm. At Blackstone he worked in the financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions arena.
The Gartens live in Southport, Connecticut, and East Hampton, New York.
They divide their time between Manhattan, East Hampton, and Paris.
With that being said, I agree with you. The family or MAW foundation had no business attempting to blackmail the celebrity chef......
You ask someone for a favor and if they grant it, fine. If not, you ask someone else.......I'm sure she's not the first individual unable to accomodate the MAW foundation.
