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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
NATIONAL 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.
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Reviews
If you want an inspiring feel good book and you are a foodie this is for you
By sas050582
This was a delightful story! I enjoyed getting to know Ina on such a personal level. Being a former business owner, I could relate to some of her crisis and both chuckled and cringed at the same time. I’m not sure this was about luck; I believe it was about hard work and true grit.
By Mrumph
I am super into self help books but didn’t pick this book for that reason. I started it with interest in Inas beautiful life she has built and how she did it. Not only was it a beautifully told story and captivating, it had some wonderful nuggets of wisdom in it. Exactly what I needed at this time in my life. Definitely one of my favorite books I’ve read.
By natalirose5
Could not put this down. To me I see this as an incredible love story. Thank You for sharing your story.
By MacyMom987
This memoir reads like Ina’s TV shows; easy, casual, great detail and thoughtful.
By Tom Hay in Boulder