When the TODAY Show crew — Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin, Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker — met Ina Garten in Paris over the weekend, the “Barefoot Contessa” gave them each a knit-straw market basket and a set of simple instructions: “You can buy whatever you want, but it has to be finger food.”
As part of NBC’s presentation of the Paris Olympics, the network elected Garten to serve as the culinary correspondent for the games. Her first assignment was organizing a French picnic in the park for the group, whom she enlisted to help with shopping at the Marché biologique Raspail, the largest open-air organic market in France.
