All Posts By Mandy Major

Mandy Major is the Online Editor for Emerging Brands. When she's not writing or recipe wrangling, she can be found hunting down strong coffee, eating ice cream or obsessively pinning recipes she'll never cook.

10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Barefoot Contessa by Mandy Major in Behind the Scenes, Food Network Chef, October 31st, 2012

Her fame may be relatively quiet — she doesn’t have a line of cookware, there isn’t a namesake restaurant — but make no mistake: Ina Garten is a powerhouse celeb chef. Fans know her story well: From a White House budget analyst to specialty food-store owner, her path to stardom has been slow and steady.Read more »