Ina Garten says a memorable interaction with Oprah Winfrey inspired the title of her new memoir

In the conclusion of her new memoir, “Be Prepared When Fate Happens,” Ina Garten reveals the inspiration behind her book's title. The title, he wrote, can be attributed to a chance meeting with Oprah Winfrey in 2010.

“I talked about how lucky I was at every stage of my career because it seemed like what I was most interested in doing was exactly what the world wanted at the time,” she wrote about the speech she gave when she accepted the Matrix Awards for Women. media. “I was lucky that I was interested in food and cookbooks at a time when the world was interested in food and cookbooks. I was lucky that the Food Network was looking for home cooking when they found me, and lucky that they refused to take no for an answer. Lucky.”

Later, Garten took her seat on stage “right next to Oprah,” he wrote.

“Immediately, he turned around and hit me on the arm and said, 'You were unlucky. You make your own luck,'” Garten recalled Winfrey telling her. “'Actually, I'm lucky,' I started saying,” she wrote. “And then he hit me again.”

Garten then says that Leslie Stahl referenced Garten's conversation with Winfrey while introducing the next guest on stage. “'Why do successful women always say they were lucky, and successful men say they got there because of their talent?' Stahl said, per Garten.

The subject of fate came up again a few weeks later, when Liza Minnelli told 23-year-old Rob Marshall to “be ready when fate strikes.” Those moments ultimately inspired Garten's memoir. His story is about “hard work”. And Fate,” he wrote, adding that he never had a “five-year plan.”

Garten says he instead “focuses on what's in front of me and works.”[s] Hard because I am love That's what I do, and I have fun doing it.”

“And then I leave the door open, so I'll be ready when fate strikes,” she closes her memoir.