Martha Stewart-- Profile

Martha is a huge deal for both experienced and novice chefs looking to improve their cooking skills. I've watched her television show when I was a kid, she made her food look so easy to make and delicious.Martha was born in 1941. She attended college not for cooking, but instead a degree in European and architectural history in 1962. She  married a law professor, Andy Stewart in 1961.
When Martha and her family moved to to Westport, Connecticut they restored a 19th century farmhouse they had bought.


Once settled, Martha decided to focus her energy on gourmet cooking. She trained herself by reading Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Martha is a staple for self taught cooking, you can do it too! She launched a catering business in the 1970's called 'Martha Stewart's Living Omninmedia. which included gourmet menus and unique, creative presentation. Within the decade Martha had grown her small start-up into a million dollar corporation. She was catering to celebrity clients at this point. Little did she know, she would become a celebrity too.
She turned her simple cooking business  into a multi million dollar corporation. She now has Magazines, blogs, cook books, cooking school, and more on not just cooking. Methods and lessons for a better home and garden, parenting, and beauty. Her net worth is now over a billion.
Her first book released in 1982 called Entertaining was the beginning of later 77 more books to be released. Many of the books are best sellers.

Martha took a different direction in 2016 but still held to her cooking. Only she teamed up with a rappers Snoop Dog to start a whole new line of material and customer base.
Their relationship began in 2008 when Snoop helped whip up mashed potatoes on her show. Six years later. One reason they work well together is that they are actually friends. Their unlikely pairing, even on their show built on food and jokes sends a valuable broader message about people from different places not only getting along, but having fun doing it.


A dark side of Martha story is she did go to prison for a short period. I still like her though. Although a very cushy prison for rich people, it was a prison non the less. She was sentenced to a Federal prison in West Virginia for five months. Her reasons for being there was due to insider trading of stock in her companies. This is when individuals within their own company buys or sells stocks by using non-public information given to them by the people of a company.

Never the less, Martha was released and has been better than every, maybe even more popular after her prison time.
Regardless of what she's done, she is still an amazing cook.





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