A Look Back at ‘Entertaining,’ Martha Stewart’s First Book

A look back at ‘Entertaining,’ Martha Stewart’s first book

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — In front of Martha Stewart is a perfectly set table, complete with silverware rolled into cloth napkins, matching blue glasses, and three picturesque floral arrangements at the center. Plates of fruit sit on a table behind her, and at the center is the face that would launch a thousand cookbooks, tableware collections, lifestyle magazines, bedding sets and fabulously-hosted gatherings. Dressed in an angelic all-whit…

Martha Stewart responds to Gen Z paying up to $1,700 for her vintage book 'Entertaining' by rereleasing it for just $50

America’s favorite stockbroker-turned-lifestyle mogul rereleased her first book, Entertaining, today. Though there’s no new material in the reissue, reheating her own nachos for a new generation should be a piece of cake for Martha Stewart, who allegedly made flan in prison one time. Why relaunch? Entertaining, originally published in 1982, has been out of print for years, but interest in the 300-recipe compendium that spawned Stewart’s business…