Executive
producer and host of "The Martha Stewart Show" founder of Martha
Stewart Living Omnimedia
Martha Stewart has always drawn inspiration from her surroundings.
Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, in a family with six children,
she developed a passion for cooking, gardening, and homekeeping
in her childhood home on Elm Place. Her mother, a schoolteacher
and homemaker, taught her the basics of cooking, baking, canning,
and sewing; her father, a pharmaceutical salesman and avid gardener,
introduced her to gardening in the family's small but orderly
backyard garden when she was 3.
While earning a bachelor's degree in history and architectural
history at Barnard College, Martha worked as a model to pay
tuition. She married in her sophomore year, and upon graduating,
she became a stockbroker on Wall Street, where she gained business
training. After moving to Westport, Connecticut, in 1972 with
her husband and daughter, Alexis, she developed a catering business
that was unlike any other. The business's unique visual presentation
of food and the elegant recipes created for various catered
events were the basis for her first book, "Entertaining," published
in 1982.
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