RE: "Im going to have to order her new cookbook."

I haven't seen her show in ages so I don't know what the timeline is for her new "barn" kitchen, janie. I only heard about it recently.

I love Ina's books. Have all of them except her "Barefoot in Paris" and her new basics one. Both are still pretty pricey. I'm cheap- so I'm waiting for a used one to pop-up at Amazon for a ridiculously-low price!

I keep checking when I go to Sams to see if it pops in over there. I get a pretty good price on them there. I have seen several episodes with the new barn in it. That is where they had the holiday parties this past season. One episode she had a barn warming party. I was reading up on her one day and he hubby has had a very impressive career.

What is Jeffery's career, janie? I know Ina worked in the White House years ago...

Jeffrey Edwin Garten (born October 29, 1946) was the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade under the Clinton administration and former Dean of the Yale School of Management. Before this, Garten served on the White House Council on International Economic Policy under the Nixon administration and on the policy planning staffs of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance of the Ford and Carter administrations. He is the author of five books and currently holds the position of Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business at the Yale School of Management, a position without tenure.

Garten has worked on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers [1] and the Blackstone Group. At Lehman, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America. He also directed and expanded the Asian investment banking business for that firm. At Blackstone he worked in the financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions arena. From 1995 to 2005, Garten was dean of the Yale School of Management. During his tenure, the school retained its #19 rank in Businessweek's rankings.

He sits on the board of directors for several corporations, including Aetna Corporation, Alcan Inc., CarMax, Inc., Credit Suisse Asset Management, The Conference Board, and The International Rescue Committee, and is chairman of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm. He is also on the international advisory board of Toyota Motor Corporation, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, and the Chicago Climate Exchange.

From 1997 to 2005, Garten contributed a monthly column for BusinessWeek. Currently, he is a frequent columnist for Newsweek International. He has also written widely in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs.

He earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1968 and an M.A. in 1972 from Johns Hopkins University. In 1980, he also received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Garten also served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1972, and achieved a rank of Lieutenant, 82nd Airborne Division, and Captain in the U.S. Special Forces. During his tenure, he carried the title of Advisor to the Royal Thai Army.

Wow- BOTH the Gartens are impressive on a number of levels! Thanks for sharing, janie!