Ina was working overtime running the Barefoot ­Contessa — a specialty food store that would later launch her fame — and ...

In this extended cut, Ina Garten opens up to TODAY's Hoda Kotb about her difficult childhood, why she says her life 'started' when she married Jeffrey, how she found her voice in the competitive ...

A quick search through the Barefoot Contessa’s full cookbook index yields a whopping 57 results for recipes with “chicken”—chicken with shallots, chicken with morels, chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, ...

2, 1948, in Brooklyn, New York. But if you ask the woman we have all come to know as the Barefoot Contessa, her life really began when she met now husband Jeffrey Garten on Dartmouth College’s ...

Before Ina Garten’s memoir had hit bookshelves, everyone was abuzz about one topic: her separation from Jeffrey.Yes, the Barefoot Contessa—the Food Network star and cookbook author whose 56 ...

Anyone who has viewed her program, “Barefoot Contessa,” knows how she dotes on Jeffrey. Here she credits him with lifting her out of a lonely childhood and giving her a chance at real happiness.