It's time to break out your mixing bowls and preheat your oven—another season of cooking with Ina Garten is on the way. The Barefoot Contessa star, cookbook author, and lovable chef is gracing our screens with another season of her Food Network series Be My Guest With Ina Garten, and you can prep by getting excited about what she'll be creating in the kitchen.
The fourth season features six episodes, each guest starring celebrities, chefs, writers, and more cooking up some mouthwatering dishes. Previous seasons have seen Misty Copeland, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney, Norah Jones, Nathan Lee, Emily Blunt, and more, making everything from pecan pie to martinis.
Jennifer Garner, who isn’t new to cooking with Garten, will be the season's first guest. According to Variety, the two will head to the barn for cooking and conversation before making Brown Butter Skillet Cornbread in honor of Garner’s grandmother’s cornbread recipe, which she struggles to recreate. As any conversation about a grandmother might lead you, they chat about family, love, and childhood memories before throwing a pizza party in the kitchen.
Garten also catches up with astronaut Nicole Mann—the first Indigenous woman astronaut who went to space and spent 157 days on the International Space Station. But while the ISS was surely an unbelievable experience, Mann apparently craved a good, freshly baked Apple Crostata—and that’s exactly what Garten will be cooking with her with when she arrives. They’ll chat about (you guessed it) space, family, love, and life.
In the third episode, you'll get to watch Garten whip up croissants, smoked salmon, and a Vanilla Coffee Shakerato with Danny Meyer, the famous New York City restaurateur. Meyer has opened dozens of restaurants, including Cafe 2 and Terrace 5 at the Museum of Modern Art, and has written or co-written multiple books about food.
Frank Bruni and Garten will team up to cook her Gruyere and Herb Omelet, complete with fresh herbs from Garten’s garden, while they chat about Bruni’s distinguished journalism career that's taken him from covering the Persian Gulf War to Congress, winning multiple awards and accolades along the way. Actress Emily Mortimer is set to make Ravioli en Brodo with the chef, and editor David Remnick—along with his wife Esther and Garten’s husband Jeffrey—have dinner in the garden.
Get ready to take notes on how to make Ina Garten’s Brown Butter Skillet Cornbread, Apple Crostata, Croissants, Smoked Salmon, Vanilla Coffee Shakerato, Gruyere and Herb Omelet, and Ravioli en Brodo when the show premiers on April 21 on the Food Network.