Be Ready When the Luck Happens

By Ina Garten,

Book cover of Be Ready When the Luck Happens

Book description

#1 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…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Be Ready When the Luck Happens as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Like loads of other people, I adore TV chef Ina Garten and her recipes. The best memoirs show you hidden sides of somebody you think you know (though you obviously don't) and this memoir contains many such surprises. After reading it, you're left admiring the lovely Garten even more than you did before, having learned she survived a dreadfully neglectful childhood and many jaw-dropping instances of sexism as she improvised her way to fame and fortune in the culinary world. Underneath Garten's gentle exterior is a fiercely ambitious woman determined to prove that living and loving well is the best…