In fact, some Martha and Ina person been effusive astir 1 different successful caller years.

"I deliberation she did thing truly important, which is that she took thing that wasn’t valued, which is location arts, and raised it to a level that radical were arrogant to bash it and that wholly changed the landscape,” Ina told TIME of Martha successful 2017. “I past took it successful my ain direction, which is that I’m not a trained nonrecreational chef, cooking is truly hard for maine — present I americium 40 years successful the nutrient business, it’s inactive hard for me."

It was Martha who gave the Food Network prima her archetypal large break, too. The aforesaid twelvemonth she purchased a location adjacent Ina's successful the Hamptons, she included a writeup of Ina's fashionable section nutrient store, The Barefoot Contessa. She would aboriginal link her to Chip Gibson, who published Ina's archetypal cookbook of the aforesaid name.

Chip recalled Martha's obsession with Ina's cooking astatine the time, saying she was "overcome" by her tendency to halt into the East Hampton store to fulfill her saccharine tooth.

"We were successful a gigantic achromatic Suburban,” helium told The New Yorker. "And abruptly she veered astir crashingly to the curb and said, ‘I’ve got to get citrus squares.’"

Her evident rift with Martha isn't the lone bombshell to travel retired astir Ina's past recently. In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens—to beryllium released connected Oct. 1—the cookbook writer revealed that she astir divorced her husband, Jeffrey Garten, successful their decades-long marriage.

"When I bought Barefoot Contessa, I shattered our accepted roles—­took a shot bat to them and near them successful pieces," she wrote. "While I was inactive cooking, cleaning, shopping, managing astatine the store, I was doing it arsenic a businesswoman, not a wife. My responsibilities made it intolerable for maine to adjacent deliberation astir thing else. There was nary anticipation astir who got location from enactment archetypal and what they should do, due to the fact that I ne'er got location from work!"

Ina added, "I thought astir it a lot, and astatine my lowest point, I wondered if the lone reply would beryllium to get a divorce. I loved Jeffrey and didn’t privation to shock—­or hurt—­him, truthful I’d commencement by suggesting we intermission for a separation."

Ultimately, Jeffrey agreed to spell to therapy and the mates learned immoderate tools to assistance them navigate done pugnacious times.

"Six weeks passed. We talked, we listened, and much important, we heard each different erstwhile we aired our concerns,” she continued. “Moving forward, we could beryllium equals who took attraction of each other. It wouldn’t hap overnight, but if we worked toward the aforesaid goal, we could alteration things together."