Discuss bestselling cookbook author Ina Garten’s acclaimed new memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens (2024), while enjoying a hearty Continental breakfast* in a club setting overlooking Long Island Sound. The long-awaited personal account from the cultural icon known as the Barefoot Contessa is an intimate yet entertaining story suited for readers hungry for a seat at her bountiful table. Garten’s gift is to make everything look easy yet all her achievements have been the result of hard work, bold choices, and exquisite attention to detail. The book brings her past and her entrepreneurial process to life in her inimitable voice, chronicling decades of personal challenges, adventures, and unexpected career twists. From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, leaving her White House job to become the owner of a small gourmet shop, and springboarding that decision on the way to becoming a famous cookbook author and TV show host, Garten has blazed her own trail. Participants should read or listen to the memoir before class.
*Menu includes make-your-own yogurt parfaits with granola & other toppings, fresh fruit, hard-boiled eggs, mini pastries, coffee, tea, and orange juice. A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Taskforce.
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