Oprah and Ina Garten Share the Secrets to a Successful Life
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Everybody, thanks for being with us on the Oprah Podcast. Around this time of year, there's nothing I love more than being comfy and cozy at home, maybe with something delicious bubbling on the stove. I hope that all of you are surrounded by those you love or maybe getting some much-needed alone time to decompress. That feels just as good, too. When I think of my guest today, I think of comfort and warmth. Just the recipe we need right now. She is one of the most beloved cooks in the world. Oprah. Ina. How are you? I'm so good and so nice to see you. So nice to see you. The Barefoot Contessa, Ms. Ina Garten. So everybody, thanks for joining us on this podcast. I have to tell you, I am just thrilled to be joined by a living legend, the barefoot contessa herself, Ms. Ina Garten. Ina, so good to be with you.
From you, Oprah, that's unbelievable. Thank you. I'm good. I've done everything I need to do in my life now. Thank you. Oh, it's so good.
So true, Ina. You just, you are all those things. You're an icon. You're so beloved and you feel like a part of our lives. Are you zooming in from your famous kitchen we love so much? I'm in the kitchen in East Hampton.
Exactly. Yes. That's what I call the barn. But a few people have said barn isn't exactly what comes to mind when they say it.
No, that's some kind of special barn. Thank you for actually doing it there. It's like... Oh, I know this kitchen. We know the kitchen. So your memoir, Ina, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, is a New York Times bestseller. So I appreciate you taking the time out of all the things. Are you kidding? I mean, it's just. a thrill to talk to you. Yes, thank you so much. How did you know you were ready to tell this story? I know that on page 293 you write, I had spent so much time avoiding the painful periods in my past, especially my childhood, that I wondered if I'd be able to open those doors and what would be behind them. And I have to say, I read a lot, a lot, a lot of books, read a lot, a lot of memoirs. This is one of the best
written, best exposed, vulnerable, generous, gracious memoirs I have ever read. It's just wonderful.
Can I just sit with that for a second? Thank you. Yes.
And I read a lot of them, but this just... I know you do.
Yes.
This just feels like you did the work to make it real. You did the work to... to bring it home and make it so relatable. I have to say it is so much work that I have not done it. I have not written a memoir yet because it is so much work. And I read that you did research on your own life to write this book. You even went to old homes you lived in and you went through 50 years of letters to and from your husband, Jeffrey, that we all adore so much.
You know, I think I never really made a decision to write it. I just decided I would start. And I was working with a friend of mine whose name is Deborah Davis, and she's an amazing researcher. And she would interview me and record what I was telling her, the stories I was telling her. But she took me back to places I'd been and asked me about it. And I recalled things I didn't remember.
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