Be Ready When the Luck Happens
An Evening Conversation with Ina Garten
Tickets for this performance are currently sold out. We recommend checking back frequently, as tickets could become available at any time.
Ina Garten (aka the Barefoot Contessa) is the author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, a beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon, with millions of followers in the US and abroad. She is 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.
In Fall 2024 Ina Garten will publish her long-awaited memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens (Crown / Penguin Random House, Oct. 2024). For the first time Ina Garten will present an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey, sharing her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.
In this intimate evening conversation (live onstage), Ina Garten will discuss and elaborate on the themes also in her new memoir: from a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, DC to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina Garten has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain.
Ina Garten’s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose.
Chef, author, and television host Erin French moderates the conversation. French owns The Lost Kitchen, an acclaimed 50-seat destination restaurant in Freedom, Maine. She has authored a 2021 memoir—Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch—and two cookbooks. She was a semifinalist for the James Beard Award for Best Chefs in America in 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
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Ticketing FAQs
While this performance is currently sold out, our Celebrity Series subscribers do have the option to exchange tickets if their plans change, so it is possible tickets could become available at any time. If tickets open up, they will become available online and over the phone, so we recommend checking the website or calling to inquire about availability.
Please be wary of tickets you see available online, as we have seen fraudulent tickets being sold at huge markups on third-party websites. Celebrity Series of Boston and Boston Symphony Hall are the only authorized ticket sellers for this event.
While this performance is currently sold out, our Celebrity Series subscribers do have the option to exchange tickets if their plans change, so it is possible tickets could become available at any time. If tickets open up, they will become available online and over the phone, so we recommend checking the website or calling to inquire about availability.
Please be wary of tickets you see available online, as we have seen fraudulent tickets being sold at huge markups on third-party websites. Celebrity Series of Boston and Boston Symphony Hall are the only authorized ticket sellers for this event.
If you are picking up your tickets at Will Call, please remember to bring your ID. Only the person who’s name is associated with the order can pick up the tickets, and they will have to present a valid ID. We cannot hold tickets under another person’s name. We anticipate long Will Call lines, and encourage all patrons to arrive as early as possible to avoid missing the start of the performance. The Symphony Hall Box Office will open at 6:00PM (2 hours before the start of the performance)
All tickets for this event are final sale, and we cannot offer refunds.
If you are picking up your tickets at Will Call, please remember to bring your ID. Only the person who’s name is associated with the order can pick up the tickets, and they will have to present a valid ID. We cannot hold tickets under another person’s name. We anticipate long Will Call lines, and encourage all patrons to arrive as early as possible to avoid missing the start of the performance. The Symphony Hall Box Office will open at 6:00PM (2 hours before the start of the performance)
All tickets for this event are final sale, and we cannot offer refunds.
This performance is sold out, and we will not be offering student rush on the day of the performance.
This performance is sold out, and we will not be offering student rush on the day of the performance.
If you purchased VIP seats, you may pick up your signed copy of Ina Garten’s book in the lobby before the performance. A pre-show email will be sent out before the performance with more instructions on where and when to pick-up.
If you purchased VIP seats, you may pick up your signed copy of Ina Garten’s book in the lobby before the performance. A pre-show email will be sent out before the performance with more instructions on where and when to pick-up.
If you would like to purchase a book, representatives will be selling a selection of books in the lobby. There will not be any signed books for sale.
If you would like to purchase a book, representatives will be selling a selection of books in the lobby. There will not be any signed books for sale.
Ina Garten will take questions from the audience in the form of note cards filled out before the show. If you would like to submit a question, please fill out a note card in the lobby before the performance.
Ina Garten will take questions from the audience in the form of note cards filled out before the show. If you would like to submit a question, please fill out a note card in the lobby before the performance.
There will not be a meet and greet or signing opportunity before or after the event.
There will not be a meet and greet or signing opportunity before or after the event.
The performance will last around 1 hour and 15 minutes with no intermission.
The performance will last around 1 hour and 15 minutes with no intermission.
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