Garten not only reveals the challenges she has faced along the way, but makes surprising disclosures about her childhood and her marriage to Jeffrey Garten ... Fireside chatty and conversational in tone. She tells her story well in easily digested prose, although she veers into self-help from time to time.
The Jeffrey hagiography finally ends and a more powerful portrait of a marriage emerges. It would have been easy for Garten to gloss over this part of her life, or to omit it all together. But it’s truly inspiring to read how they gradually come back together ... She has created an inviting and relaxing world that’s the equivalent of one of her cocktail recipes.
Garten’s lively memoir emphasizes how hard work and unrelenting tenacity were what made the magic happen. An entertaining foray into this well-loved cooking host’s illustrious life.
