Ina Garten has listed her pied-a-terre in New York City. The gifted chef and Emmy-award winner is asking $1.975 million for the property, which she purchased with her husband in 2004 for $1.4 million. The ‘Barefoot Contessa’ and co. picked up a Park Avenue apartment last year, for $4.65 million. The newer apartment has the better kitchen.

But the kitchen in the residence-for-sale is nothing to sneeze at; a little narrow, maybe, but quite a cozy, unassuming, and charming blend of urbane and Scandinavian, which would be a propos for the soft-spoken professional foodie. If only those narrow kitchen walls could talk. The quiches alone boggle the mind.

The rest of the apartment has a pleasingly bohemian look; New Directions Paperbooks would feel very at home on the shelves in the common living area. A half-staircase leads to the dining area and kitchen, a double-height ceiling lends a sense of expanse, and leaded glass windows, a fireplace and chevron-patterned hardwood keep things comfortably familiar.

The apartment was originally a two-bedroom residence, and has been reconfigured as a one bedroom retreat for a couple. The bedroom is toned muted-warm, and the bath is outfitted in the requisite veneer of marble.

And the new kitchen? A bit more room for preparation, and a much nicer stove.

Ina Garten’s Food Network program, ‘The Barefoot Contessa,’ has been running for fifteen years; it has spawned cookbooks and a line of upscale food products.