As fans of her “Pretend Cooking Show” know, Jennifer Garner is no stranger to the kitchen. Now, she’s playing a culinary professional: In a new television adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s best-selling ...

I will never find myself in the same culinary category as Ina Garten—or Giada De Laurentiis, or Julia Child, for that matter. I’m not a professional chef, and honestly, I have zero aspirations to be.