Ina Garten and Martha Stewart
Getty Images (2)Inna's garden She never saw the need to compare herself to her Martha Stewart Despite what everyone around her said.
“(I learned) to just trust your vision,” Garten, 76, said during Tuesday, Dec. 24. Podcast appearance. “I think the thing that works is if you're really true to who you are. If you believe in it so strongly, someone out there will believe in it too.”
She added: “It's true. It's not 'I'm going to be this fun person…that people will just like'. Just show who you are and do the best job you can do and I think people will trust that. They respect that and believe in it.”
Garten says she sees her life like a train ride.
Daniel Zushnik/WireImage; Michael Symon/Getty Images Martha Stewart and Ina Garten are two of the biggest names in lifestyle, but it looks like their past friendship has evaporated. They first met in the early 1990s when Stewart went shopping at Garten's now-closed Barefoot Contessa store in East Hampton, New York. “My office was in (…)
“People try to get me off the train, and I keep it on track,” she explained. “If I feel absolutely sure that what I'm doing is right, I won't let others take me off my game.”
Inna's garden
Noam Galai/Getty Images for NYCWFFTwo lifestyle gurus They first crossed paths in the early 1990s when Stewart, 83, went shopping at the now-closed Barefoot Contessa store on Garten in East Hampton, New York.
“My desk was right in front of the cheese case and we ended up having a conversation,” Garten previously said. time in a 2017 interview. “We actually ended up doing benefits together where it was at her house and I was the caterer, and we became friends after that.”
One day, Stewart brought a publisher to the Barefoot Contessa outpost who helped secure Garten's first cookbook deal. Each has since published several recipe collections and run their own cooking shows.
Nearly two decades later, it was reported that Stewart and Garten were out. Stewart claimed that The New Yorker That September Garten, stop talking to me. After I went to prison. (Stewart was convicted on felony charges of conspiracy to obstruct federal investigators and making false statements. She was sentenced to five months in prison and was released from prison in March 2005.)
But Garten denied this The alleged fall It was the result of Stuart's imprisonment.
“Well, let's just say that her story isn't entirely accurate,” Garten said earlier this month during a writing event, supporting her recently released memoir. “You know, that was 25 years ago. I think it's time to let it go.”
Garten also noted Tuesday that she surrounds herself with “really smart, creative people” to help make the best decisions in her career.
“What I tend to do is talk to everyone at first and get everyone's perspective,” Garten explained. “I listen, we talk, we build something. But at the end of the day, my job is to make choices, and once I have all the information… I know exactly what the right thing to do is.
