--- description: Taylor Swift joins Ina Garten in the Barefoot Contessa kitchen. title: Taylor Swift and Barefoot Contessa Discuss Male Dieting Over Drinks image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Taylor Swift and Barefoot Contessa Diss Men Who Go on Diets by [Hannah Goldberg](/author/hannah-goldberg/) ## Hannah Goldberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 18, 2014 4:04 PM CUT by [Hannah Goldberg](/author/hannah-goldberg/) ## Hannah Goldberg Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 18, 2014 4:04 PM CUT [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/2852682/its-a-glove-story-baseball-teams-sang-taylor-swift-to-each-other-on-twitter/ "undefined") joined her ‘[hero’](http://instagram.com/p/lfqtdvDvK9/ "undefined") Ina Garten in a _Food Network Magazine’_s special issue that paired up culinary stars with their musician friends. The affection is mutual; Swift owns the complete collection of the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks, and Garten owns all of the country-pop singer’s albums. > [](https://twitter.com/FoodNetwork/status/478918789648498689) Barefoot Contessa and the Nashville native laughed about dieting over mustard-roasted fish, berry-topped pavlova, and Ina’s favorite drink — Whiskey sours. Their mutual love of food was evident. “I’ll cook for these boys, and they’ll be like, ‘I’m on a diet’,” the singer says, “I’m like, ‘I can’t hang out with you.'” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2894295/taylor-swift-diet-men-food-network/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2894295/taylor-swift-diet-men-food-network/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift and Barefoot Contessa Diss Men Who Go on Diets","datePublished":"2014-06-18T16:04:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:30.096Z","description":"The effervescent singer and the culinary star discuss boys and food (what else?) in the Barefoot Contessa kitchen","url":"https://time.com/2894295/taylor-swift-diet-men-food-network/","keywords":["Living","Food","relationships","Taylor Swift","Cooking"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Hannah Goldberg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/hannah-goldberg/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2894295/taylor-swift-diet-men-food-network/","name":"Taylor Swift and Barefoot Contessa Diss Men Who Go on Diets"}}]}] ```