The Best Recipes from Ina Garten’s Barefoot in Paris

Updated October 2026 Barefoot in Paris, Ina’s love letter to her favorite city and cuisine, was one of the first Ina cookbooks I owned and will always have a special place in my heart. French cooking is really the through line in Ina’s cookbooks. It’s the base, the core, and the backbone of so much of her repertoire. After spending four months camping in France, Ina taught herself to cook by working her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and the rest is herstory. Ina’s love of French food is also what inspired me to return to France several years ago on my own little food journey, a trip that somehow ended with a chance run-in with Ina and Jeffrey at a restaurant. Paris really is a magical city. In Barefoot in Paris, Ina takes on so many French classics, simplifying the difficult ones without sacrificing flavor, leaning into French country cooking, and creating foolproof recipes for those of us who were not classically trained at Le Cordon Bleu. From her…