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Garten carried on with the Barefoot Contessa name, however, in her 1999 [[Sleeper hit|sleeper]] bestseller, ''The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook''. Filled with elegant yet accessible recipes that made her store successful, the book far exceeded both Garten's and publisher Clarkson Potter's expectations, selling over 100,000 copies in its first year.{{ref|origcopies}} In 2001, Garten capitalized on her new-found fame and released ''Barefoot Contessa Parties!'', which also produced excellent sales and garnered very good reviews, and followed this with ''Barefoot Contessa Family Style'' in 2002. As of 2004, the three cookbooks combined had sold over 1 million copies.{{ref|combocopies}}
Notably, Garten's cookbooks depart from the usual encyclopedic format most culinary tomes follow; and, instead, are modeled after [[coffee table book|coffee table books]]. Filled with lush photography, with a facing full-page picture for each recipe, detractors sometimes criticize this method as it leaves less room for recipes, particularly at the rather steep [[MSRP]] of $35 each. Nevertheless, criticism has been sparse and her cookbooks have received overall positive reviews, with fellow chef [[Giada De Laurentiis]] recently naming Garten as one of her favorite authors.{{ref|giada}}
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# {{note|origcopies}} Trends, Publishing (2000). "Chefs Shake Up Cookbook Market." Publishing Trends.
# {{note|combocopies}} Weinraub, Judith (2004). "Bistro Cooking, by Degrees." Washington Post.
# {{note|Giada}} Sagon, Candy (2005). "The Food Network's Latest It Girl." Washington Post.
# {{note|viewers}} Dobnik, Verena (2005). "The Barefoot Contessa Lives Her Dream Life." The Shreveport Times.
# {{note|inherit}} Dickerman, Sara (2003). "Move Over, Martha." Slate.
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