If people were asked to typify aspects of Australian culture, barefoot would be in there. It's been called one of the 'weirdest', 'perplexing', 'odd', 'unexplainable' Australian cultural habits.

When Ina Garten gave up her job at the White House to buy a specialty food store in New York called Barefoot Contessa, she had never run a business. But the lessons she learned in that 400-square ...

“When I bought Barefoot Contessa, I shattered our traditional roles — took a baseball bat to them and left them in pieces,” she writes. Following some time apart, the couple agreed to meet e ...