#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. A
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review Time The New Yorker Vanity Fair Town
& Country 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 .
