![]() ![]() Martha Stewart’s Quick Cook became my go-to book of recipes as I decorated, cooked and invited. Did I really think that people like Andy Warhol, photographer Bruce Weber, or Giorgio Armani whom I worked for, cared about my modest “home”? ![]() Inspired by Martha Stewart, I saw that celebrating all occasions was more important than feeling shy about my small apartment’s lack of a proper dining-room table. In the heyday of the now-legendary hard partying, yet remarkably creative time, imagine Martha Stewart daring to tell us that domestic arts are an ideal to aspire to. Disco bites served by bare-chested male models on roller-skates was a world away from Martha’s country-house dining-room table, seated with friends and family, eating from her homemade recipes. ![]() I was 21 and living in Manhattan when Martha Stewart’s Entertaining! was published amidst the wild scene of the go-go ’80s, where getting inside the velvet ropes of Studio 54 was all the rage. ![]()
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