Trivia

Friend of Mariska Hargitay.

Before becoming a television host, chef and cookbook writer. Ina worked as a policy analyst at The White House.

Married Jeffrey Garten, on December 22, 1968, at her parents' house in Stamford, Connecticut.

The name of her specialty store and television program, Barefoot Contessa (2002), is derived from the film, The Barefoot Contessa (1954), starring Humphrey Bogart.

Her cooking and entertaining style is best described as elegant and earthy.

Learned cooking from Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking".

Grew up in Stamford, Connecticut

Her idea of relaxing food is roast chicken and vegetables.

Wrote her first cookbook in 1999, simply called The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which was one of the best-selling cookbooks of that year

In 1966 she studied fashion design at Syracuse University in New York.

Merited the sobriquet "The UK's Best-Loved American Cook" as telecast on Britain's Food Network (2010/11).

Attended Syracuse University in New York, majoring in Economics.

Lives in East Hampton, New York [2010].

Ina has confessed that she had never worked at a restaurant or food store, had no formal culinary training, and to this day day still finds cooking quite a difficult chore. She taught herself to cook using Julia Child's books.

Has written 13 cookbooks.

Daughter of Charles H. Rosenberg, and Florence Rich.