Celebrity chef Ina Garten, 76, has revealed she believes much of her successful career is down to luck – and there’s a reason.
Garten, also known by her nickname, Barefoot Contessa, recently published her moving memoir, which, coincidentally, or maybe not, is titled Be Ready When the Luck Happens.
In late October, the Food Network host sat down for a chat with actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa, California, and revealed more about her path to fame.
He admitted that much of it was due to luck.
‘When I was buying a specialty food store, I was very lucky that I chose a field at a time when women were going back to work and had jobs, had families and had homes to take care of, and started buying dinner. to take out,” Garten said during the appearance, according to Los Angeles Times.
Celebrity chef Ina Garten, 76, has revealed that she believes much of her successful career is down to luck – and there is a reason for that.
Garten, also known by her nickname, Barefoot Contessa, recently published her moving memoir, which, coincidentally, or maybe not, is titled Be Ready When the Luck Happens.
‘Specialty food stores were really in vogue. “I was very lucky to have caught this,” he continued.
Garten used to own a food store in the Hamptons, Barefoot Contessa, where she sold foods like chicken salad and baguettes.
In 1996 he sold the store, according to his biography, and published her first cookbook in 1999.
However, while Garten may have had some luck, she also noted during the talk that she is a self-taught cook.
And to finance certain cooking projects, he would renovate houses and take out loans, according to the LA Times.
“I did these things because they were fun, not because they were work, and I realized I was ready when luck struck,” Garten said.
In her new memoir, Garten also discussed some pretty difficult topics, such as the childhood abuse she suffered at the hands of her father and the difficulties in her marriage to her husband Jeffrey Garten.
In an excerpt from her memoir, Garten shared that after she began running her own business, she realized she could no longer “live with him in the traditional ‘man and woman’ relationship.”
‘Specialty food stores were really in vogue. “I was very lucky to have caught this,” he continued.
In an excerpt from her memoir, Garten explains that after she began running her own business, she realized she could no longer “live with him in the traditional ‘man and woman’ relationship.”
“When I bought Barefoot Contessa, I broke our traditional roles: I took a baseball bat from them and left them in pieces,” he wrote.
‘While I still cooked, cleaned, shopped and managed the store, I did so as a businesswoman, not a wife.
‘I just couldn’t live with him in a traditional “man and woman” relationship. Jeffrey had done nothing wrong.
‘He was simply doing what all the men before him had done. But we lived in a new era and that behavior was no longer okay with me. I had changed.’
However, although at one point she considered divorce, the two fortunately overcame their problems and have been married for 56 years.
On his 77th birthday last November, Ina paid him a touching tribute.
‘Happy birthday to my dear husband Jeffrey. “I’ve loved you madly for almost 60 years and I’m just getting started,” he gushed.
