Be Ready When the Luck Happens - Ina Garten

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

By Ina Garten

  • Release Date: 2024-10-01
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 100 Ratings

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.
 
Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina’s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose.
 
From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain. Now, she invites them to come closer to experience her story in vivid detail and to share the important life lessons she learned along the way: do what you love because if you love it you’ll be really good at it, swing for the fences, and always Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

Reviews

  • I love her

    5
    By Hooked on Mallery's Books!
    I don’t follow any cooking shows, but I always followed the barefoot Contessa and it was because of Ina Garten. I always felt relaxed when I watched her cooking and thought I can do that too because she made it look easy and I loved absolutely loved her interaction with her husband Jeffery the book was beautiful and beautifully written. I want to go back and see some of the shows I may have missed that she mentioned in her book. I agree with her our struggles make us more successful, even though we aren’t thinking that at the time. Thank you Ina
  • A must read! She was a “That Girl” but didn’t know it.

    5
    By Chipwoman50
    I’ve been an Ina fan for many years and have all of her books. I know when I’m using one of her recipes, it will be perfect every time. It was great getting to know her in this intimate setting. Thank you Ina for sharing your story. I recommend this book and send you a high 5 for a job well done. This is one memoir I’ll read again and again.
  • As Perfect as Ina’s Lemon Chicken

    5
    By GloTaub
    I’m full, stuffed, can’t move! This book was delicious- it was”perfect” just like her lemon chicken! I just gorged myself on Ina’s memoir and I loved it. I’m more than in awe of her; she makes everything seem so easy, and yet her life (her work) is the result of sacrifice, tenacity, and grit! And Jeffrey….. Read it, devour it, savor every word
  • How good is that?!

    5
    By Stephanie_R1228
    If you’re a big Ina fan, you’ll love this book. I have been waiting for this release and couldn’t put it down. Loved hearing more about her story!!!

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