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    Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
    Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
    Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
    Audiobook8 hours

    Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

    Written by Ina Garten

    Narrated by Ina Garten

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    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.


    * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of recipes and images from the book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateOct 1, 2024
    ISBN9798217012282

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    • 5/5
      I sometimes feel that Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa is overexposed. I read this memoir in about a day. Similar to the biography that I recently read on Judith Jones, I found that I was impressed with Ina’s never ending energy.

      I mostly enjoyed the chapters on her life after her acquisition of The Barefoot Contessa store. The calculated risks she takes are inspiring. After I finished the book, I started leafing thru her cookbooks and watching her new show Be My Guest.

      An amazing and inspiring woman.
    • 5/5
      This was a really great book and insight into Ina’s life. I love the way it not only told her life story but of her challenges in her business, adapting to social media and creating a brand. This was honestly such a good book and comprehensive, but really well done. Plus, Ina narrating her own book was great.