Be Ready When the Luck Happens

A Memoir

De: Ina Garten

Narrado por: Ina Garten

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.

©2024 Ina Garten (P)2024 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Be Ready When the Luck Happens is a wildly entertaining and compulsively readable story about curiosity and courage, challenges and coconut cupcakes. It’s also a love story for the ages. Smart and funny, warm and engaging, Ina Garten proves just how lucky a person can be if she’s willing to work hard, get over her past, and be fully and fearlessly engaged with life.”—Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake

Refreshingly vulnerable

We all tend to think of Ina Garten as doing everything perfectly but in this book she really opens up as to all the challenges and pitfalls that each of us run into. She's SO relatable, inspiring and warm while sharing some very painful life experiences that drovecher to the hard work that garnered her such success. There are certainly applicable life and business lessons to be learned within this book. Such an enjoyable read and left me wanting to hear more!

Better than I expected

I finished this in 2 days. Super interesting, intimate and inspiring! I highly recommend it to those who love Ina and younger women who want to fine inspiration on their lives!

Overcoming

I loved the honesty and awakenings that Ina Garten shared in this book. It enabled me to recast some of my life.

Honest, Beautiful and Inspiring!

Every woman needs to read this story and be reminded of their value and all they can achieve when they are brave enough to quiet the voice saying “don’t take the chance”. And now we all know never to settle for anything less than a Jeffrey in a partner!

Amazing woman. Amazing love story.

Her life is wonderful. She’s got grit, determination and hard work. And the luck to find a wonderful partner like Jeffery. READ THIS BOOK.

Just amazing

What a great story, I have always loved Ina and this book just proved why.

Loved

First off I love Ina as the narrator. Her story was inspiring and made me love her even more. As far as her relationship with her smart, kind and supportive husband, it was a beautiful insight into what makes a strong marriage successful. I don’t want to spoil anything but I will say bravo Ina and thank you for sharing.

Perfectly Ina!

This was a truly engaging and fascinating look at how Ina came to be to loved and respected personality she is today! She covers the tough times, the wonderful times, and all the lessons learned along the way! This book is a must for even a casual fan, and real fans will love her (an Jeffrey!) even more!!

Her voice…always relaxes me

Having watched her for years, I always enjoyed the anecdotes of her life. This memoir filled in the backstory. Yes, she’s in a very different social tier, but I respect her hard work, creativity, and marriage to Jeffery. Thanks, Ina.

My mouth was watering for more!!!

I was a little sad when the book ended. Ina’s story is interesting and heartwarming. I had chills every time she spoke of her and Jeffrey. I throughly enjoyed the entire book! Thank you for sharing your journey Ina.