Now There's an Ina Garten Way in East Hampton (2024)

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Ina Garten in East Hampton

Garten did list the three acre lot in prime East Hampton Village in 2019, but the listing has since been removed. It seems that she and Jeffrey still call the place home.

Ina and her husband, Jeffrey, have a stunning house in East Hampton, N.Y.

Ina Garten is the unofficial queen of the Hamptons.

Her "Barefoot Contessa" show got its name from her now-closed specialty-food store, and her present-day, laid-back, permanently-on-vacation vibe exudes casual wealth.

Her fame may be relatively quiet — she doesn't have a line of cookware, there isn't a namesake restaurant — but make no mistake: Ina Garten is a powerhouse celeb chef.

Ina and Jeffrey Garten have been married for over 50 years, having tied the knot in 1968. Throughout their marriage, the couple have lived in many places together including Paris, Washington, D.C., Manhattan and East Hampton, New York.

For years now, the couple has made their home base the Hamptons, where Ina Garten has continued writing her bestselling cookbooks while her husband, the former dean of the Yale School of Management, travels a few days each week to teach classes at the school.

Several years ago, Garten built a second kitchen in a barn on her property so she could have somewhere to film episodes of Barefoot Contessa (she told Oprah Daily all about it in 2021). But Garten's home kitchen, where she still cooks meals for friends and family, has remained untouched for 25 years—at least until now.

Garten and her husband Jeffrey paid $4.65 million for the stunning home, located at the corner of Park Avenue and 62nd Street in Manhattan.

The one meal Ina simply couldn't live without is roast chicken. She even cites it as one of the reasons her husband, Jeffrey, proposed marriage in 1968.

In a new interview for Julia Louis-Dreyfus' podcast, Wiser Than Me, Garten admitted that it "wasn't a struggle at all" to decide against having children. "I had no interest in having children," she told Louis-Dreyfus. "I had a terrible childhood, and it was nothing I wanted to recreate.

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Born Ina Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, Garten was one of two children born to Charles H. Rosenberg, a surgeon specializing in otolaryngology, and his wife, Florence (née Rich), a dietitian.

The Food Network star has a primary home in East Hampton, New York—and House Beautiful got a behind-the-scenes look at the space in 2015. Built by Frank Greenwald, the barn-style home provides a cozy respite for the Garten family—away from filming, recipe testing, and cookbook writing.

Currently, Jeffrey serves as the Dean Emeritus at the Yale School of Management and teaches courses on the global economy. According to his faculty page, prior to joining Yale, he worked for multiple White House administrations, served in the U.S. Army Special Forces and was a managing director on Wall Street.

Celebrity chefs such as Ina Garten, Gordon Ramsay, and Rachael Ray didn't go to culinary school. Ree Drummond, also known as The Pioneer Woman, rose to celebrity chef status through her food blog.

Ina Garten hosts Food Network's Barefoot Contessa, for which she has won six Emmy Awards. She has also written thirteen best-selling cookbooks, including Cooking for Jeffrey in 2016. Garten and his wife live in East Hampton, New York.

Sagaponack, a village in the town of Southampton in the 11962, has been called home by CEOs, musicians, famous authors, and celebrities. In December 2019, Drew Barrymore purchased a $6 million farmhouse in the Hamptons village, the New York Post's Jennifer Gould Keil reported.