Ina Garten says that she credits much of her success to luck

Celebrity chef Ina Garten, 76, has revealed she believes much of her successful career is down to luck – and there’s a reason for that.

Garten, also known by her nickname Barefoot Contessa, recently released her moving memoir, which is, coincidentally – or maybe not – called Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

In late October, the Food Network host spoke with actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa, California, and revealed more about her path to fame.

She admitted that a lot of it was down to luck.

“When I bought a specialty store, I was really fortunate that I had chosen a field at a time when women were going back to work and they had jobs and they had families and they had to maintain a house and they started buying food . to take out,” Garten said during the performance The Los Angeles Times.

Garten, also known by her nickname Barefoot Contessa, recently released her moving memoir, which is coincidentally – or maybe not – called Be Ready When the Luck Happens.

‘Specialty stores were really on the rise. I’m really lucky to have noticed this,” she continued.

Garten used to own a grocery store in The Hamptons, Barefoot Contessa, where she sold foods like chicken salad and baguettes.

In 1996 she sold the store, according to her biography, and published her first cookbook in 1999.

While Garten may have had some luck, she also noted during the chat that she is a self-taught chef.

And to finance certain cooking projects, she 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 for them when luck came,” Garten said.

In her new memoir, Garten also discussed some pretty heavy topics, such as child abuse she endured at the hands of her father and difficulties in her marriage to husband Jeffrey Garten.

In an excerpt from her memoir, Garten said that after she started running her own business, she realized she “could no longer live with him in the traditional ‘husband and wife’ relationship.”

‘Specialty stores were really on the rise. I’m really lucky to have noticed this,” she continued

An excerpt from her memoir, Garten, explains that after she started running her own business, she realized she “could no longer live with him in the traditional ‘husband and wife’ relationship.”

“When I bought Barefoot Contessa, I shattered our traditional roles – took a baseball bat and left them in pieces,” she wrote.

‘When I still cooked, cleaned, shopped and managed the store, I did it as a businesswoman, not as a wife.

‘I just couldn’t live with him in a traditional ‘husband and wife’ relationship. Jeffrey had done nothing wrong.

“He just did what every man before him had done. But we were living in a new era, and I wasn’t okay with that behavior anymore. I had changed.’

Although she once considered divorce, the two happily overcame their problems and have been married for 56 years.

On his 77th birthday last November, Ina shared a touching tribute to him.

“Congratulations to my dear husband Jeffrey. “I’ve loved you so much for almost sixty years and I’m just getting started,” she said.