When Ina Garten gave up her job at the White House to buy a specialty food store in New York called Barefoot Contessa, she had never run a business. But the lessons she learned in that 400-square ...

Training Day Dinner. Ina helps serve up a meal for local volunteers. She prepares grilled bread with prosciutto, potato salad, barbecue pork ribs and pear and ...

Ina Garten amps up canned cranberry sauce with apples, pecans and raisins. Get the Barefoot Contessa's recipe for chunky cranberry sauce. Ina Garten swears by this Thanksgiving hack. Get the ...

Garten later penned a column for Martha Stewart Living and secured her first book deal with Stewart's help after bringing a publisher to her specialty food store, The Barefoot Contessa.

She took a “crazy chance” and, responding to an ad in the New York Times, bought the Barefoot Contessa food store in the Hamptons for $20,000. She knew nothing about the business, but her ...

And no chef soothes me more than Ina Garten and her delicious pasta recipes. So, when I discovered that the "Barefoot Contessa" star has a penne with five different cheeses, I knew I had to try it.

NEW YORK (AP) — Long before Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly. It was the ...

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.

Before the best-selling cookbooks, before owning Barefoot Contessa, even before cooking, Ina Garten worked as a nuclear policy analyst at the White House. In fact, when she bought her specialty ...