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“…and then I leave the door open, so I’ll be ready when the luck happens.”

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

April 4, 2025 by NTE 2 Comments

  Up next in the parade of memoirs, mostly of women, we come to Ina Garten’s Be Ready When the Luck Happens.  Off the top, I’m going to say that I knew very little about Garten, pre-reading: I knew she was called the Barefoot Contessa, and that she had a cooking show that occasionally made it into my viewing queue, and that she is a quality meme format (‘store bought is fine’), but that was about all. As it happens? I was missing out. Because Garten […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food Tagged With: be ready when luck happens, cookbook, humor, Ina Garten, life philosophies, memes

NTE's CBR17 Review No:8 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food · Tags: be ready when luck happens, cookbook, humor, Ina Garten, life philosophies, memes ·
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