Ina Garten became an American culinary icon by knowing what people want: ease, abundance, nostalgia, and butter. Her vision of comfort and plenty was, as her new memoir makes clear, a response to a difficult childhood. Ina Garten and the Age of Abundance The Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty.

 

Ina Garten became an American culinary icon by knowing what people want: ease, abundance, nostalgia, and butter. Her vision of comfort and plenty was, as her new memoir makes clear, a response to a difficult childhood.

Ina Garten and the Age of Abundance

The Contessa looks back at a career built on fantasies of comfort and plenty.