Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart's Cooking School -- Did It Close?

See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School archives Perhaps you noticed Squid Ink was covering Martha Stewart's Cooking School on PBS -- watching her program each weekend and employing her expertise in our own kitchens, learning to make salad dressings and emulsions, stocks, and getting terrorized b ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 6, Rice

See also: The Martha Stewart Cooking School archives. Rice can be an unsung hero at times -- taken for granted, treated as merely a bed on which to lay more interesting food, or as filler, say, in a burrito. It's an everyday item, thus we often forget to appreciate the many roles it can play in our ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 5, Butchering A Trip to Lindy & Grundy A Minor Panic Attack

See also: The Martha Stewart Cooking School archives. It's time for a confession: I have never butchered a chicken. Why? Well, mostly because raw chicken gives me the willies. I like chicken, I eat it all the time, and I don't get that same skin-crawly feeling around raw beef or pork, but raw chick ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 4, Stocks

Squid Ink is going back to basics with Martha Stewart's Cooking School, airing every weekend through the end of the year on PBS. Join us. See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 1, Eggs See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 2, Sauces See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 3, Vegetables

Squid Ink is going back to basics with Martha Stewart's Cooking School, airing every weekend through the end of the year on PBS. Join us. See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 1, Eggs See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 2, Sauces It seems a difficult undertaking to show ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 2, Sauces

Squid Ink is going back to basics with Martha Stewart's Cooking School, airing every weekend through the end of the year on PBS. Join us. See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 1, Eggs Martha Stewart believes in studying the classics, she says, as images of Einstein, Shakespeare and Ab ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 1, Eggs

Squid Ink is going back to basics with Martha Stewart's Cooking School, airing every weekend through the end of the year on PBS. Join us! It seems fitting for Martha Stewart to kick off her latest series, Martha Stewart's Cooking School, with eggs, since it's the way many of us begin our days. We a ... More >>

Squid Ink Signs Up For Martha Stewart's Cooking School

In a world where food TV is dominated by ticking clocks, mystery ingredients, blindfolds, curve balls and culinary hijinks, it's incredibly refreshing that Martha Stewart is bringing something completely opposite, and totally simple, into the mix by way of Martha Stewart's Cooking School, premiering ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/1 - 10/5

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Two years ago a heat spike like these might have resulted in some sunburned fruit; this year, however, the crop has escaped this fate." Serious Drinking: The 2012 California Wine Harvest. "To use Anthony Bourdain's words on ... More >>

Food Word Clouds: Pink's Hot Dogs

Today's adventure in food word clouds comes courtesy of Pink's, the hot dog stand (legendary, iconic, fabulous, pick your overused yet applicable adjective) on La Brea. This is not the ordinary menu but the "super specials" menu, from which you can order hot dogs created for actual legends and icons ... More >>

5 Podcasts for Food Lovers

If you're already a podcast listener then you most likely know and love KCRW's Good Food and The Splendid Table, two of the best shows on the radio, ready for uploading at any time. In terms of food coverage, there's also NPR, Martha Stewart, and the list goes on. Those shows are great because they' ... More >>

Martha Stewart to Debut Martha Stewart's Cooking School' on PBS

Martha Stewart, who in recent years has been seen most often on the Hallmark Channel, is making the move to public television with the debut of Martha Stewart's Cooking School premiering on PBS this fall. As the title suggests, this show will be largely instructional. Martha isn't the gimmicky type ... More >>

Read This Now: Julia Moskin The Sussman Brothers on Cookbook Ghostwriting

If you have not already read Julia Moskin's piece "I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter" in last week's New York Times food section, you really should. And after you finish reading it, go read yesterday's blog post from The Sussman Brothers -- titled "#Cookbookghostgate" -- on the same subject, which is as ... More >>

8 Things on Pinterest That Annoy the Crap Out of Me

See our previous story, "Pinterest Makes Me Feel Like I'm Bad at Being a Woman" Pinterest -- the latest social media craze sweeping our laptop screens -- can be many things to many people. As a virtual vision board on which you can bookmark little internet finds that strike your fancy, it's your ca ... More >>

Martha Stewart meets a hoarder

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock and Martha Stewart Meeting a Hoarder

This week's list includes a tribute, disguise, displacement, hoarder and megalith. It runs the gamut, in other words. 5. Banana face Urs Fischer likes obstructions and disguises. Better yet are obstructions that double as disguises. For his exhibition at Gagosian in Beverly Hills, he's blown up vin ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/6-2/10

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It is the manliest cooking video ever made, a video with enough pure T to reduce Guy Fieri into a whimpering puddle of gel." Where to Find Breakfast Tacos in L.A.? "They had to clean all the grease off of the walls, then pai ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/5-12/9

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But the menu at Bäco Mercat, the new restaurant from Joseph Centeno of Lazy Ox, reads almost like a graduate exam in culinary poststructuralism, mixing flavors from Italy, France, and Western Chin ... More >>

Martha Stewart Saves Thanksgiving, or Your Life: Top 10 Most Ridiculous #AskMartha Tweets

You know the old Thanksgiving turkey hotline? We always imagined rows and rows of expert turkey-makers manning phones like the Jerry Lewis telethon, ready to answer your burning (or, hopefully just golden brown) bird questions. Actually, that's pretty much how it works, we think. But like Mario Bata ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Bite by Bite Is All About The Party

​We've never fully understood the need for cookbooks dedicated solely to miniature versions of foods, like Peter Callahan's soon-to-be-released Bite by Bite: 100 Stylish Little Plates You Can Make For Any Party. Then again, we're not big city caterers (Callahan's namesake catering company is ... More >>

Kinfolk Magazine Launches July 15th

Kinfolk Magazine​ Martha Stewart will tell you how to make a frilly, cream-colored wedding bouquet and prepare shrimp salad tea sandwiches for twenty. Set to publish its first issue in July, the new Kinfolk Magazine takes a more relaxed approach to entertaining, offering articles and photogra ... More >>

Martha Stewart: The Comic Book

Bluewater Productions Inc.Martha Stewart​ Eh, who needs the Green Lantern when you've got Martha Stewart. We now mean this very literally, as Stewart will soon have her own comic book to go along with the rest of her multimedia empire. "Female Force: Martha Stewart," a one-shot issue from Vanc ... More >>

A Recipe for Pâte Sucrée Mother's Day Kitchen SOS

Patricia EscusaFrench Fruit Tart Prepared by Patrica Escusa, Test Kitchen Assistant​ Every year, during elementary school, we made something for Mother's Day as a class project. If your mother really did you love you, she probably still has a stash of butterfly and heart shaped cards as reminders ... More >>

How to Make an Omelet: Martha Stewart and Craig Ferguson Crack Some Eggs

Craig Ferguson in a toque. Martha Stewart with a spatula. What more could you possibly want? Thanks to Grub Street for this one, in which Stewart shows the host of the Late Late Show how to make a fluffy French omelet ("It's like a rabbit," observes Ferguson) with eggs from her Connecticut farm, and ... More >>

Happy Anniversary: Martha Stewart Released From Jail 6 Years Ago Today

Marthastewart.comMartha at home​Happy Anniversary Martha! Six years ago this morning, Martha Stewart was released from jail. As you may recall, Stewart spent five months at the minimum-security federal women's prison in Alderson, West Virginia after being convicted for lying to government inve ... More >>

Las Balkanieras Know What's Cooking: Borek

Kelis' milkshake may have brought all the boys to the yard in 2003, but in Germany, it's the börek that keeps the boys coming back to the yard. In this video for their song "What's Cooking," pan-European trio Las Balkanieras raps about the wonders of the savory meat pastry known as börek or bure ... More >>

The Daily Meal's 50 Most Powerful People in Food

Listmania continues (David Letterman's cultural legacy, perhaps, along with Velcro suits) but this time The Daily Meal has come up with something more compelling than a list of Top 10 Cupcakes. Theirs? America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food. It's a good list, as it would be: The Daily Meal is h ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/15-11/19

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As you might have expected, A-Frame, in what looks like an old IHOP tricked out with enough pine and track lighting to make it resemble a ski chalet, is pretty different from the legion of gastropubs." First Bite: Take the A ... More >>

And Now, A Brief Message From Martha Stewart

screenshot of Martha Stewart's Twitter page​

Your Twitpic of the Day: Martha Stewart and Tony Bennett

If you happened to be in New York City last night. If you happen to be a fan of both Martha Stewart and Tony Bennett, and if you are not, well, there's probably some Marilyn Manson concert you could have gone to instead. Or maybe Sandra Lee can schedule some performance art with Justin Bieber. I don ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Wedding Cake Art And Design

Get Your Piping Bags Ready​Aspiring Sylvia Weinstock types take note. It's almost wedding season. Your triple-tier, rosebud appliqué red velvet-white chocolate ganache (oh gawd, please no) cake is the next lady-in-desperate-wedding-planning waiting. Toba Garrett's new Wedding Cake Art and Des ... More >>

What Would Arianna Do: Huffington Post Launches Food Section

Today, in fact about an hour ago, The Huffington Post launched their new food page. You knew this one was coming, right? The Atlantic has a food page, as does Tina Brown's The Daily Beast. And I bet Arianna Huffington makes a mean skordalia. HuffPost Food editor Colin Sterling says that the new se ... More >>

What Would Martha Do: Martha Stewart Launches an iPhone App

You knew it was only a matter of time before Martha Stewart launched an iPhone app. And so she has. Last week Martha Stewart's Everyday Food App launched on iTunes. Because if you can have an app for both The White House and Plants vs. Zombies on your phone, you kind of need Martha to balance the wh ... More >>

Asiadog Pops Up Tomorrow at Tony's Saloon: Kimchi Hot Dogs That Even Martha Loves

Asiadog​Last August when Asiadog popped up in Los Angeles--from Brooklyn--at Bigfoot Lodge West, they sold out of hot dogs in the first 2 hours. This time around, the 2 New Yorkers who operate the mobile restaurant, Steve Porto and Melanie Campbell, say they'll have more hot dogs to match with ... More >>

Premium Marbled Beef...Pillow: The Meat Is So Soft

​I don't know much about this Beef Pillow. I don't know that there is much you need to know except that it's a pillow. Shaped like beef. It's on sale at Etsy for $42 (originally fifty bucks). It ships from Hong Kong. According to the description: This is a piece of beef-shape pillow made in k ... More >>

Martha Stewart's LA Book Signing: Lines, Canapés and (Tonight) Leno

Yesterday afternoon Martha Stewart was in town, signing her new book, Dinner at Home, at the Sur La Table at the Grove. (Read our interview with Stewart.) The lines stretched down 3rd street in patient formation, as everyone waited with their event tickets and a book (or books), a security guard on ... More >>

A Q&A With Martha Stewart: Her New Book, What She Thinks of Gourmet, And Cooking to Ludacris

photo credit: Valerie Schaff​Martha Stewart is coming to town this Monday to sign copies of her new book, Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home: 52 Quick Meals to Cook for Family & Friends. For all of you keeping track, this is Martha's 67th cookbook. We spoke with her yesterday by phone in her New ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Recipe for Duck Breast With Fig Sauce 8,439 Things To Do With Fresh Figs

When we talked to Martha Stewart yesterday, we also asked her which recipe from her new book, Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home, that she'd recommend for Los Angeles cooks at the moment, given the season and the available produce. "The duck breast is really good. It's a Mallard duck breast with cabbag ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/10 - 10/16

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "We play a lot of his music and Snoop's music, Diddy's music, and Eminem on our breaks on the TV shows. It's all rap."

30 Seconds With Martha Stewart: New Cookbooks Signed. Empire Consolidated

Martha Stewart, business magnate, domestic goddess and ex-felon, signed 350 copies of her new books Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts and Martha Stewart's Cooking School this weekend at the Borders in the Northridge Fashion Center. The three people from the media who have shown up on a bea ... More >>

The Empire (Waist) Strikes Back

The flier likened it to WWD meets WWF, but the Style Wars event at Cinespace on Tuesday night was more like Iron Chef meets Martha Stewart's Craft Corner - on crack. I've got some styling work and a jewelry line under my belt, but the people I competed against were "real" designers and I think ... More >>

Insincerely, Martha

Martha Stewart unveiled her equivalent to “You’re fired” last week on her own version of The Apprentice, and it’s . . . poisonous etiquette.

The Many Colors of Pae White

Multidimensional artist brings her barrage to the Hammer

Martha and Barry’s Big Britches

Supersized Celebrity Crimes

Expert Advice: Pre-Nup

Mindy Weiss of Mindy Weiss Party Consultants explains the I dos and don’ts

Flat Out of Skid Row

Cardboard-box condos, L.A.’s first flat-file gallery and the ultimate California f(art) joke

Iron Maidens

Crime Wave

Immaculate Contraception

Creme Brulee

And the sweetness of selling out