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Be ready when the luck happens : a memoir / Ina Garten.

Garten, Ina, (author.).

Summary:

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. -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593799895
  • ISBN: 0593799895
  • Physical Description: 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- Over the wall -- What goes in early goes in deep -- "Don't even waste the stationery" -- Meet the parents -- Sadie, Sadie, married lady -- That girl -- The Body Shop doesn't do car repairs? -- Two for the road -- "It's that crazy Ina Garten!" -- Starting from scratch -- 1,000 baguettes and the business end of a gun -- Tokyo, how hard can that be? -- The pinochle club -- "I can sell this book in La Jolla" -- "Lose my number" -- "Put my jugs on the what?" -- Cooking with Elmo -- La vie en rose -- It's always cocktail hour in a crisis -- Epilogue -- Thank you!
Subject: Garten, Ina > Biography.
Cooks > United States > Biography.
Food writers > United States > Biography.
Genre: Informational works.
Autobiographies.
Illustrated works.

Available copies

  • 16 of 46 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Mississippi County Library District.

Holds

  • 75 current holds with 46 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Mississippi County - Clara Drinkwater Newnam Library BIO GAR (Text) 38530100775933 Adult Biography Available -


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