On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 04:10:40 GMT, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:

>Questions of innocence, guilt, crime, punishment and celebrity aside,
>what do y'all think of Martha Stewart's recipes and cookbooks? I have
>one, Entertaining, I think. I don't use it regularly, but the few times
>I've cooked out of it, I was pleased. At this point in my life, I'm
>making more simple, old standby recipes so Stewart's recipes strike me
>as too fancy, too much emphasis on presentation, but I've been known
>every now and then go for presentation too. Thoughts?

One of the recent biographical specials said a NYTimes reviewer (I
think) infuriated M. by trying several recipes in her first book and
discovering they didn't work. Presentation is all; content not so
important.

Someone gave me one of her magazines that featured a beautiful color
picture of an hors d'oeuvre composed of a toasted baguette slice, goat
cheese, and 3 lima beans. I'm wasn't interested in reading further.