When Ina Garten ran her namesake Barefoot Contessa store in the Hamptons, she was not a hand-off owner, but rather she ...

For Ina Garten, queen of the kitchen and “ engagement” chicken, store-bought is always fine — even when she’s having lunch ...

When she was a toddler, she wasn’t into cartoons. She became a huge fan of “The Barefoot Contessa,” a cooking show helmed by ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ina Garten about going from government employee to best selling cook book author, television cook -- a journey she shared in her new memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

Long before Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself ...

She was working an economic policy job at the White House when, at age 30, she bought a small specialty food store called the ...

The cookbook author’s long-awaited memoir pulls back the curtain on life before the Barefoot Contessa—from the highs of ...

Allison Michael Orenstein For more on Ina Garten, including the the full excerpt from her memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

Martha Stewart and Ina Garten may go way back ... a bite of food on camera and speaking with her mouth full, Garten said she decided TV wasn’t for her and the show was shelved.

Ina Garten and her husband, Jeffrey Garten, have the recipe for a long-lasting marriage. The pair first crossed paths when she was 15 years old and visiting her older brother at Dartmouth College.

Ina Garten and her husband are thought of as an ideal couple, but their relationship wasn't always perfect. They were once ...