By Peter White Television Editor Ina Garten, celebrity chef and star of the Food Network’s long-running series Barefoot Contessa, went viral last week when she made herself a rather large Cosmopolitan before lunchtime. “You need a big pitcher because I like to make a lot of cosmos.
You never who’s going to stop by. Wait a minute, nobody is stopping by,” she joked. “During a crisis, cocktail hour, can be almost any hour.” The Food Network is now figuring out how to leverage Garten’s latest move into the zeitgeist and move it from the digital sphere to television. “We’re brainstorming ideas for her,” Food Network President Courtney White told Deadline. “We’re asking how we can take that content that people want and how we can approach in a
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