Meet the true loves of your favorite celebrity chefs

Ina’s Garden

Ina Garten’s relationship with her longtime husband Jeffrey dates back to the 1960s, when Barefoot Countess The chef was only 15. They dated for five years and married in 1968 in her parents’ garden.

In his upcoming memoir, Be ready when luck comes, Ina first opens up about a difficult time she and Jeffrey went through in their marriage in the 1970s when she was running her Barefoot Contessa store in the Hamptons, New York, and he was working in Washington DC.

“We played some parts that I found really annoying,” Ina told PEOPLE. “I felt like if I hit the pause button, I would get his attention.”

Ina asked Jeffrey to separate – a decision she calls “the hardest thing I’ve ever done” – although the two reconciled after he agreed to see a therapist.

“He was so determined to convince me that he really wanted our marriage to work,” she writes.

Rachel Ray

Rachael Ray married John Cusimano in 2005 in Tuscany.

“John and I didn’t meet until later in life and we didn’t get married until we were almost 40. We knew who we were. We’ve always been that way, for 20 years. We don’t take it personally when someone wants to vent or explode. We’re also very good at being quiet with each other,” Ray told PEOPLE in 2021. “We don’t look for constant chatter. And we’re very good at giving each other space to work on our passions.”

Gordon Ramsey

Although Gordon Ramsey is known for being a bit of a tough guy on TV, he is first and foremost a family man. He has six children with his wife Tana, whom he married in 1996.

“Date nights are crucial, whether it’s a movie or a car ride. We have limited time, but it’s quality, so it’s really important,” Gordon told PEOPLE earlier this year about how he and Tana keep the spark alive while raising children with a two-decade age difference.

The couple welcomed their first daughter, Megan, in 1998, then fraternal twins, daughter Holly and son Jack in 1999, Matilda in 2001, Oscar in 2019 and son Jesse James in 2023.

Giada De Laurentiis

Giada De Laurentiis and producer Shane Farley began dating nearly 10 years ago in 2015, after the Giada at home the star’s divorce from Todd Thompson.

“I was fortunate enough to be able to find someone relatively quickly after my divorce,” De Laurentiis, who shares daughter Jade with Thompson, told PEOPLE in 2022. “So far, so good, which is lucky for me because when you’re a single mom and you’re working, it can be hard to find someone who can accept that life.”

Guy Fieri

Guy Fieri married his wife Lori in 1995 after meeting at a restaurant a few years earlier. The couple have two sons together, Hunter and Ryder, and also helped raise their nephew Jules after Guy’s sister Morgan died of melanoma in 2011.

“Family is always the first priority,” Guy told PEOPLE in 2022.

Marcus Samuelsson

Chef Marcus Samuelsson married his wife Maya Haile Samuelsson in 2009 and have since welcomed two children together, Zion and Grace Ethiopia. Marcus is also dad to an adult daughter named Zoe.

Wolfgang Puck

While Wolfgang Puck has created an empire of restaurants, cookbooks and kitchenware, he is also a father and grandfather.

The Austrian chef has sons Oliver and Alexander with Gelila Assefa Puck (pictured here in March 2024) and sons Cameron and Byron with ex Barbara Lazaroff. In 2022, he celebrated becoming a grandfather when Cameron and his wife Kate welcomed baby Maxwell Lyubim Lazaroff-Puck.

After first meeting in 1997, the couple married in Capri in 2007, Harper’s Bazaar reported this summer.