The Barefoot Contessa star, 76, got candid on how her mother, Florence, thought marrying her now-husband of 56 years, Jeffrey, was a huge mistake — years before the couple briefly separated.

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, ...

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.

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The “Barefoot Contessa” chef and entrepreneur inspires a kind of devotion that few celebrities ... perhaps most importantly, her relationship with her husband, Jeffrey. “I think they are the cutest ...

Ina Garten, whose reality show “Barefoot Contessa ... in Connecticut to meeting and marrying the love of her life Jeffrey (while still in college) to her first boring bureaucratic jobs ...

The Food Network personality, also know as the Barefoot Contessa, appeared at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa to talk about her latest book, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens." ...

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When I bought Barefoot Contessa, I shattered our traditional ... t live with him in a traditional "man and wife" relationship. Jeffrey hadn’t done anything wrong. 'He was just doing what every ...