Martha Stewart in Good Housekeeping
The doyenne of domesticity and good food, Martha Stewart has landed on the cover of the newest issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. Inside, she talked about everything from her time in jail, her newest projects, her boyfriend Charles Simonyi and even shared her favorite recipes.
You can read the interview in its entirety right here, and her favorite recipes, including the pie she served during the interview, can be found here. In the meantime, here are a few excerpts from the article.
On e-mail:
“If it’s important, I answer it. If it’s not, I don’t.”
On eating:
“I love dessert,” she says. “I can’t be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.” Asked if she diets, she responds, ”Oh, all the time,” she says. “Some days I just don’t eat.” Why? “So I can zip my pants up,” she says with a little laugh.
On working around her house:
“I have three hives. We’re building a new greenhouse and I don’t want to disrupt their pollinating. So I got dressed up in my bee outfit, cleaned the hives, and moved them up by the vegetable garden.”
On her newest project, the Martha Stewart Center for Living, a geriatrics center that opens in November:
“It’s something I can do for the rest of my life,” Stewart says. “I can keep learning about all the different technologies.”
On her boyfriend, Charles Simonyi:
“He’s a self-professed nerd. Very nice, very thoughtful, very smart. He’s very compartmentalized; he knows exactly where he’s going to be when.”
About them living together:
“Well, he lives in Seattle and I live here, so it’s kind of impossible,” she says. “He can stay on his boat for six months at a time, and I have a job.”
On what she did with her time in jail:
“It gave me an opportunity to read, to think about a lot of things — my farm project [at her Bedford estate], my whole company, and what I wanted it to be… We’d have picnics and we’d have dinner parties… We did 500 sit-ups every night, and I taught yoga…And I told stories about what it’s like to work and about good business behavior. I was a role model for a lot of these women.”
Photo from Good Housekeeping.
