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Book

Be ready when the luck happens : a memoir

Call Number

  • 921 G2423 (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024]

Physical Description

306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--

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!

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