Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics

It's a trip down memory lane for Ina and Jeffrey Garten with a day trip to Brooklyn visiting places old and new. The day kicks off with a fabulous breakfast, then armed with a packed lunch it's off to Brooklyn for a culinary tour.

Whether it's grilled, baked, hard or blue, Ina has cheese covered in the kitchen. She whips up Coconut Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing, Herb Coeur A La Creme, a Roasted Vegetable Frittata and the Ultimate Grilled Cheese.

Whether it's a main course, starter, salad or side, Ina shares her best vegetable ideas for every day of the week.Then she gets the vegetable low-down from farmers at Amber Waves, a fantastic farming local cooperative.

Ina teams up with cookbook writer and caterer Julia Turshen and chefs Kevin Penner and Cedric Vongerichten to share recipes that professional cooks make at home when they're off the clock.

Kevin Clash and Elmo are visiting the Hamptons and Contessa's place.

Inspired by a recent trip to Florence, Ina re-creates a Florentine feast for friends back home in East Hampton. There's a mozzarella master class, Italian drinks tray, store-bought hors d'oeuvres and Baked Fish in Parchment.

Ina Garten shares a collection of restaurant-inspired dishes to cook at home. She visits the famous Rao's restaurant to cook with Frank Pellegrino and gets insider information from the best kitchens in America.

Ina is pushing the fruit boundaries by shaking up the classics, getting the scoop on fruit desserts from local Chef Laura Donnelly and finding interesting new ways to cook with fruit.

Ina is demystifying the classics, offering tips and techniques to get French flavor fast. She shares ideas for French table settings and takes a trip to meet French Chef Guy Reuge to get the scoop on French pate.

The East Hampton ambulance volunteers meet once a month for a cookout and Ina's pitching in with the help of local Chef Joe Realmuto to feed its 50 volunteers. This is cooking for a crowd, Barefoot style.