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I'm Tanya Moseley.
Like so many of us, one of my favorite pastimes is watching a good cooking show and deluding myself into thinking that I can make every single dish I see on screen to perfection.
No one makes me feel more like a culinary queen than our guest today, Ina Garten.
She first appeared on our screens in 2002 with her popular food network show Barefoot Contessa.
For years, the show was shot in her real life kitchen, and it allowed us to follow along as Garten shopped for ingredients, giving her honest and sometimes hilarious commentary as she tested her recipes.
The ultimate payoff followed a sit down meal with her real life friends and husband, Jeffrey.
Well, in a new memoir, Ina Garten takes us to where it all started, her painful childhood growing up in Connecticut, and how she went from working in the White House to becoming a beloved culinary voice.
Despite having no prior experience in the food industry, Ina Garten has authored 13 best selling cookbooks and is returning to the Food Network with new episodes of Be my guest.
She's won five Emmy awards and three James Beard awards.
Her new memoir is titled be ready when the luck happens.
Ina Garten, welcome to Fresh Air.
Thank you so much, Tanya.
It's so good to be here, to say the least.
Your life is fascinating, and I want to start with your show and then go backwards because Barefoot Contessa is such a beloved show.