NEW YORK (AP) — Long before Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling ... named after a 1954 Ava Gardner movie but perfectly summing up her philosophy of both elegant and earthy.

NEW YORK — Long before Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly.

Ina Garten may be known for her 13 cookbooks (along with her latest book, a memoir titled Be Ready When the Luck Happens), award-winning show The Barefoot Contessa, and extra large Cosmopolitans ...

Long before Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling ... named after a 1954 Ava Gardner movie but perfectly summing up her philosophy of both elegant and earthy.

Ina Garten is looking back in a new memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” which distills stories from her life into ...