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

By:

Garten, Ina [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9798217014255

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LOC classification:

TX649.G377 A3 2024b

Contents:

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!

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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Large Type Collection	New Books	LT 614.5092 GAR	Available	pap. ed		36748002648063

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Regular print version previously published: New York : Crown, 2024.

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.