Be Ready When the Luck Happens
A Memoir
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Ina Garten
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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 those 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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- wendy clubb
- 2024-10-11
Such a lovely autobiography
This was a great book to listen to. I love Ina. She is so insightful, honest, optimistic and realistic- reminding us that passion is such an important ingredient when it comes to life. And what an amazing accomplished life she has had so far.
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- Casandra
- 2024-11-19
Magical
It’s everything you’d expect from Ina. She creates her world with her soft spoken way and with just the right amount of details. Her honesty is refreshing and I know I will be listening a second and maybe third time! Well done Ina!
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- Angela M.
- 2024-11-18
A fun book
I loved listening to her story…it is about believing in yourself, finding your person but standing tall on your own, not settling, going after what you truly want, and despite encountering a hard start with parents that didn’t know how to be parents … in the end she did not allow them to define her and it was lovely she repaired the relationship with her father.
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- ClaSyl
- 2025-01-05
Best Biography I’ve ever read
I always love Ina Garten and own all her cookbook. She’s an icon and such an inspiration!
Her relationship with her husband is what most women would aspire to. She also followed her dreams and achieved them.
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- Kyle
- 2024-10-16
Love her even more!
An honest, interesting listen about hard work, overcoming your childhood circumstances, and love. Through candid reflections, it captures moments of joy and F U N throughout Ina’s life, illustrating how her experiences shaped her understanding of success and what fulfillment really means for her. It’s a compelling listen that inspires and resonates, reminding us of the strength we find in both struggle and triumph.
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- Margaret Michaels
- 2024-10-28
Ina's life candidly shared
Ina narrates a comprehensive autobiography, from her childhood thru university and into the world of food. She talks about her heritage, meeting the 'love of her live' in university, their marriage and her drive to owing and running a business. She tells us about day to day storefront and back kitchen stories. It is an unconventional life, foregoing children and the usual trappings of playing the ''supportive wife' to her successful husband. Ina is an independent, hard working woman. Her tag line 'how easy is that' belies the grit and determination she had that which paved the way for her success. I enjoyed this autobiography a lot. Ina's charming manner comes across in her warm, easy to listen to voice.
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- Colleen Risbey
- 2024-12-02
chef approved
really love a good female chef story. inspiring and wholesome with notes of grit and sensibility that a chef would understand. ,
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- Miniwitch
- 2024-10-22
Empowering
This memoir is simply amazing, listening to Ina Garten telling her story is EVERYTHING!!! J'adore sa passion et sa candeur FÉLICITATIONS ma chère, votre livre est merveilleux :)))
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- Colleen
- 2025-01-12
Love Ina from start to finish.
The best memoirs are read by the author. Loved this so much. Great perspective on all the work that made it look so easy. When passion and integrity are driving the bus…..great things happens.
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- RB
- 2024-10-25
Fantastic!
This is a truly entertaining, interesting and inspirational memoir. I highly recommend it. You’ll enjoy it especially if you love cooking!
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