Every author would like to channel Ina Garten's success. On the strength of pre-sales alone, her latest cookbook, "Cooking for Jeffrey," was the No. 2 seller in Amazon's cookbook category for weeks. Jeffrey is Garten's husband of 40 years, a frequent and always smiling character in her books, and a frequent guest on her television show, "The Barefoot Contessa," a title adopted from the name of the gourmet specialty food store she owned for almost 20 years. "My sweet husband, Jeffrey, has been my most constant and appreciative audience," Garten says in the book. "My whole career has been about cooking for him." The book reads like a love letter, with...
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