Episode description

Season 2 of Books, Beach, & Beyond ends its regular season with the icon that is Ina Garten and her new memoir Be Ready When The Luck Happens. Ina Garten is the author of a dozen cookbooks and the host of Be My Guest and Barefoot Contessa on Food Network and Max, for which she has won five Emmy Awards and three James Beard Awards. Elin, Tim, and Ina talk about the process of writing the memoir, the courage it took for her to take risks throughout her life, the support and love she feels from her husband Jeffrey, her time on Nantucket and Paris, and much more. The three reveal what their last meals would be and find out Ina's favorite ingredient, least favorite food, guilty food pleasure, favorite Thanksgiving dish, and what remains on her bucket list in the speed round at the end.

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Ina Garten Reading List

• Be Ready When The Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten
• Barefoot Contessa Parties! by Ina Garten
• Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten
• Barefoot Contessa at Home by Ina Garten
• Family Style by Ina Garten
• The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

What else are we reading in this episode?

• Party of the Century by Deborah Davis
• Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis
• The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy by Deborah Davis
• Tina Turner: My Love Story by Deborah Davis
• Nantucket Openhouse Cookbook by Sarah Leah Chase
• Coldweather Cooking by Sarah Leah Chase

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