Ina Garten

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What I’ve Learned: Ina Garten October 02, 2024

Ina Garten, seventy-six, is one of the most beloved and successful figures in American culinary history. It all began in 1978, when she left her role writing nuclear-energy budgets at the White House to purchase Barefoot Contessa, a specialty food st...

A Garten Party September 30, 2024

It may surprise you to learn that Ina Garten, the merry purveyor of famously comforting delicacies such as “outrageous” chocolate brownies (a dash of instant coffee and less flour is the key), the “perfect” roast chicken (pay attention to those sauté...

Ina Garten and the Age of Abundance September 03, 2024

On a June evening that was pleasantly warm in East Hampton and too hot almost everywhere else, Ina Garten and her husband, Jeffrey, picked me up for dinner in a Mini Cooper convertible. It was one of many on the roads of Long Island’s East End. (“The...