Celebrity Chef Ina Garten Reflects on Troubled Relationship With Father in Upcoming Memoir

The celebrity chef discusses her difficult childhood in her new book, ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens.’
Celebrity Chef Ina Garten Reflects on Troubled Relationship With Father in Upcoming Memoir
Ina Garten speaks onstage at the New Yorker Festival in New York on Oct. 12, 2019. Brad Barket/Getty Images for The New Yorker
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Ina Garten, a beloved celebrity chef and host of the Food Network cooking program “Barefoot Contessa,” is set to share details about her troubled upbringing—including her experiences with physical and emotional abuse—in her forthcoming tell-all memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens.”

Ahead of the book’s release on Oct. 1, Garten, 76, spoke with People about the turbulent relationship she and her older brother, Ken, had with their late parents, Charles and Florence Rosenberg.