Ina Garten - the Barefoot Contessa - is Coming to The Bushnell

Press release

Photo by Austin Hargrave.

An Evening with
INA GARTEN

at The Bushnell on December 4, 2024

Tickets On Sale This Friday, April 12

HARTFORD, CT, April 9, 2024 – The Bushnell announced today that popular author and Food Network personality Ina Garten aka the Barefoot Contessa will serve up a satisfying evening of conversation on Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30 PM at The Bushnell.

Tickets for Be Ready When the Luck Happens: An Evening Conversation with Ina Garten will go on sale at 10:00 AM Friday, April 12, and will be available at bushnell.org, by calling (860) 987-5900 or by visiting The Bushnell Box Office at
166 Capital Avenue (Mon-Fri from 10 AM to 5 PM).

"Now one tells a story like Ina." For the first time best-selling author and TV personality Ina Garten will present an engaging, 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 the 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 Be Ready When the
Luck Happens, that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures,) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose.

Purchasers of the highest-priced tickets will receive a pre-signed copy of Ina Garten's new book upon its release.

ABOUT INA GARTEN

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). In conjunction with her memoir. 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.