Ina Garten Net Worth

July 2024 · 5 minute read

Ina Garten net worth is
$40 Million

Ina Garten Wiki Biography

Ina Rosenberg Garten was born on 2 February 1948, in Brooklyn, New York City USA into a Jewish family, and is well-known as a personality in the entertainment industry as a popular chef as well as a TV show host. In addition, she has written quite a few cook-books, as well as working as a White House nuclear policy analyst.

So just how rich is Ina Garten? Authoritative sources estimate that Ina’s net worth is over $40 million as of mid-2016, accumulated as a TV star, author, and analyst for two presidents in the White House over her career now spanning more than 45 years.

Ina Garten Net Worth $40 Million

Ina was raised in Stamford, Connecticut, and showed a scientific aptitude at school, but then postponed tertiary education to marry, and lived in Fort Bragg, North Carolina while her husband completed four years military service during the Vietnam War. Here she expanded her interest in culinary activities (and qualified as a private pilot), which continued when they moved to Washington DC in 1972 with her husband’s job, but she was also employed at the White House,  meantime completing an MBA degree at George Washington University. She was eventually promoted to write nuclear energy budget and policy papers for Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, but found relaxation in cooking, as well as ‘flipping’ houses, and subsequently resigned in 1978, to buy a specialty food store in New York – the Barefoot Contessa – named after the ’50s film starring Ava Gardner.

Ina was so successful that the business multiplied in physical size and revenues – and eventually on-line – Garden sold it in 1996, and then took to writing, publishing many books beginning with ‘The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook’ (1999), and many more on a similar theme, including “Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes For Easy Parties That Are Really Fun’ (2001), “Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food You Can Make at Home’ (2004), ‘Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You’ll Make Over and Over Again’ (2006), ‘Barefoot Contessa: How Easy Is That?’ (2010), to date totalling over 10.

Ina was again successful to the point where she began appearing on television in 2000, adding further to her net worth. She began her career in the show ‘From Martha’s Kitchen: Ina Garten’s Kitchen Clambake’, on the Food Network channel, and since 2002 she has hosted the cooking show ‘Barefoot Contessa’ , for which Ina won two Daytime Emmy Awards for the Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Host respectively in 2009 and 2010.

In addition to this, she has been nominated a number of times. From 2006 until 2010 Garten increased her net worth appearing in the documentary television series ‘Chefography’. Moreover, from 2010 to 2011 she appeared in the sitcom ’30 Rock’ created by Tina Fey.

Ina has also been working as a columnist for various magazines. Since 1999, she has written for ‘Martha Stewart Living magazine’ in the column of ‘Entertaining is Fun!’, since 2003 for ‘O, The Oprah Magazine’ in the column titled ‘Entertaining’, and since 2006 for the magazine ‘House Beautiful’ in the column ‘Ask the Barefoot Contessa’.

In her personal life, in 1968 Ina married Jeffrey Garten who she had first met being fifteen years old. Ina belongs to The Democratic Party and is active in political life.


Full NameIna Garten
Net Worth$40 Million
Date Of BirthFebruary 2, 1948
Place Of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Height5 ft 2 in (1.6 m)
ProfessionChef, Author, Presenter, Actor
EducationGeorge Washington University, Syracuse University
NationalityAmerican
SpouseJeffrey Garten (m. 1968)
ParentsCharles H. Rosenberg, Florence Rosenberg
SiblingsKen Rosenberg
NicknamesIna Rosenberg , Ina Rosenberg Garten
Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/InaGarten
Twitterhttp://www.twitter.com/inagarten
Instagramhttp://www.instagram.com/inagarten
IMDBhttp://imdb.com/name/nm2208575
AwardsDaytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Host, James Beard Award for Outstanding Personality/Host, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Food & Cookbooks
NominationsJames Beard Award for Entertaining and Special Occasions
TV ShowsBarefoot Contessa
#Quote
1Every household needs somebody who cooks... and somebody who really appreciates it.
#Fact
1Friend of Mariska Hargitay.
2Merited the sobriquet "The UK's Best-Loved American Cook" as telecast on Britain's Food Network (2010/11).
3Lives in East Hampton, New York [2010].
4Learned cooking from Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking".
5The name of her specialty store and television program, Barefoot Contessa (2002), is derived from the film, The Barefoot Contessa (1954), starring Humphrey Bogart.
6Her idea of relaxing food is roast chicken and vegetables.
7Married Jeffrey Garten, on December 22, 1968, at her parents' house in Stamford, Connecticut.
8In 1966 she studied fashion design at Syracuse University in New York.
9Grew up in Stamford, Connecticut
10Attended Syracuse University in New York, majoring in Economics.
11Before becoming a television host, chef and cookbook writer. Ina worked as a policy analyst at The White House.
12Her cooking and entertaining style is best described as elegant and earthy.
13Wrote her first cookbook in 1999, simply called The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, which was one of the best-selling cookbooks of that year

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
30 Rock2011TV SeriesIna Garten

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Chew2013-2016TV SeriesHerself - Guest / Herself
Today2012-2016TV SeriesHerself - Guest / Herself
Barefoot Contessa2002-2016TV Series documentaryHerself - Hostess / Herself - Host / Herself / ...
Late Night with Seth Meyers2016TV SeriesHerself
Fox News Sunday2015-2016TV SeriesHerself - Power Player of the Week
Beat Bobby Flay2016TV SeriesHerself - Judge / Mentor
Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris2015TV SeriesHerself - Guest, It's Neil's Mom
CBS News Sunday Morning2014TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Food Network Thanksgiving2013TV SeriesHerself
Katie2012TV SeriesHerself - Chef
The Perfect 32011-2012TV SeriesHerself
Food Network Star2009-2011TV SeriesHerself
The Best Thing I Ever Ate2010TV SeriesHerself
Dear Food Network2008TV SeriesHerself
Dear Food Network: Thanksgiving2008TV Series

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Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2010Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Lifestyle/Culinary HostBarefoot Contessa (2002)
2009Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Lifestyle/Culinary HostBarefoot Contessa (2002)

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2015Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Culinary HostBarefoot Contessa: Back to Basics (2010)
2008Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Lifestyle HostBarefoot Contessa (2002)

Known for movies


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