{"id":2445342,"date":"2019-06-14T19:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T01:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/martha-stewart-has-capacity-crowd-engaged-at-her-first-food-wine-classic-in-aspen\/"},"modified":"2019-06-15T06:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:58:21","slug":"martha-stewart-has-capacity-crowd-engaged-at-her-first-food-wine-classic-in-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/martha-stewart-has-capacity-crowd-engaged-at-her-first-food-wine-classic-in-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Stewart has capacity crowd engaged at her first Food &amp; Wine Classic in Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.6971713810316\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-307945-100\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Marth Stewart gave her first Food &amp; Wine Classic seminar on Friday to a full house at the St. Regis. Along with her food editor Sarah Carey, left, Stewart talked about summer entertaining and had the crowd loving every minute of the 45-minute session.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Marth Stewart gave her first Food &amp; Wine Classic seminar on Friday to a full house at the St. Regis. Along with her food editor Sarah Carey, left, Stewart talked about summer entertaining and had the crowd loving every minute of the 45-minute session.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1.jpg\" alt=\"Marth Stewart gave her first Food &amp; Wine Classic seminar on Friday to a full house at the St. Regis. Along with her food editor Sarah Carey, left, Stewart talked about summer entertaining and had the crowd loving every minute of the 45-minute session.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | A full room listened and laughed Friday morning as Martha Stewart gave her first Food &amp; Wine Classic seminar.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>A full room listened and laughed Friday morning as Martha Stewart gave her first Food &amp; Wine Classic seminar.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"A full room listened and laughed Friday morning as Martha Stewart gave her first Food &amp; Wine Classic seminar.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times | Martha Stewart poses on the red carpet Thursday night during a brief stop at the Food &amp; Wine Classic Welcome Reception.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Martha Stewart poses on the red carpet Thursday night during a brief stop at the Food &amp; Wine Classic Welcome Reception.<\/strong><br \/>Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/06\/FWmartha-atd-061519-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Stewart poses on the red carpet Thursday night during a brief stop at the Food &amp; Wine Classic Welcome Reception.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/martha-stewart-has-capacity-crowd-engaged-at-her-first-food-wine-classic-in-aspen\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/martha-stewart-has-capacity-crowd-engaged-at-her-first-food-wine-classic-in-aspen\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Martha Stewart came to the Food &amp; Wine Classic for the first time and performed a solid stand-up comedy set Friday morning for a capacity crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Stewart\u2019s charm and dry wit was on full display during her only seminar at her inaugural classic. Stewart, 77, effortlessly gave a 45-minute how-to on \u201cSummer Entertaining,\u201d and while people came for the lessons they left with a smile after a barrage of one-liners and stories all while making a clambake with lobsters, a dessert and three summer drinks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI hope you don\u2019t mind me making jokes,\u201d Stewart said about 15 minutes into her set. \u201cBecause it\u2019s early in the morning and we should all be laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That alone drew a rousing round of applause that was almost as loud as when she was introduced by Food &amp; Wine magazine Editor Hunter Lewis, who thanked the crowd at the St. Regis ballroom for \u201cstanding in line for the queen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A longtime visitor and downhill skier at Aspen, Stewart has a stronger connection with the event after the company that publishes Martha Stewart Living magazine, Meredith Corp., acquired Food &amp; Wine magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Long before the morning session started, people were standing in a line that stretched out a side door of the St. Regis then downhill on Mill Street toward Wagner Park. That line got so long, a second \u201cauxiliary line\u201d was started on the block going up Mill Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Karen Roy of Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod Bay got to the hotel more than two hours before the 10 a.m. start and was at the front of the line with her friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe were the first ones here. We got here about 10 minutes of 8 in the morning,\u201d Roy said while she waited behind the velvet rope at the top of the stairs leading down to the 350-person ballroom venues. \u201cWe got right over here because we knew it would be busy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Roy, a private chef who also runs a construction company with her husband, said she got Stewart\u2019s first book, \u201cEntertaining,\u201d as a wedding gift in the early 1980s. Stewart\u2019s session Friday came from her latest collection, the 95th book she\u2019s released in her storied career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWill I ever see Martha Stewart again?,\u201d Roy said. \u201cI love to cook. \u2026 I\u2019m going to be in the front row paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Stewart\u2019s appearance in Aspen this year, said Lewis, was important because of the reach of their two publications and how they align.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cEverything that she puts her hand on is gold. Martha is just so cool and so talented,\u201d Lewis said Thursday night at the Food &amp; Wine opening party. \u201cWe always look at what that mix of talent is. You\u2019re going to see some other fresh faces here, too. We\u2019re always trying to think about that right mix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like writing a menu. You can\u2019t have all the same thing. You can\u2019t have all the same people. You need to mix up the talent, mix up the skill-sets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And it doesn\u2019t need much explaining what talent and skills Stewart has brought to the food and entertaining culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Asking other longtime chefs and wine experts about Stewart making her first appearance at the Classic can be accustom to asking pro golfers about the return of Tiger Woods. They all see the contribution they have made in their chosen fields, but sometimes it might seem like too much focus on one person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Not so, many said at Thursday\u2019s opening reception, where Stewart made a quick visit, fashionably late, standing on the red carpet for less than five minutes before heading back out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cShe\u2019s really good at food and wine, and it\u2019s hard to ignore that. Although she has a sordid past, you have to move on from that,\u201d said Andy Chabot, who is the sommelier and food and beverage director at Blackberry Farm in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. \u201cShe\u2019s an amazing person. And she\u2019s very down to Earth when you talk to her. She\u2019s come to Blackberry a few times. We love her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Stewart spent a well-publicized five months in a minimum-security federal prison starting in 2004 after being found guilty of numerous felony charges including lying to investigators about a stock sale. It was an experience that was \u201chorrifying\u201d and a \u201cvery, very awful thing,\u201d she said in an interview last year <a id=\"N0x1412370N0x1409d50:N0x1412370N0x140bd40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/earwolf\/katie-couric\">on Katie Couric\u2019s podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Her comeback started shortly after that, and has morphed into a number of genres, including a cooking show with rapper Snoop Dogg, a visitor to Aspen\u2019s Belly-Up the past few years and also a performer at the 2015 Winter X Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">During Friday\u2019s Q&amp;A with the audience, Stewart was asked what the favorite thing she shares with Snoop. A question she gets a lot since their unlikely pairing for the cooking show, Stewart didn\u2019t hesitate to continue to placate the capacity crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cMaybe a little smoke. A particular kind of smoke, not a barbecue smoke,\u201d she joked, while making it clear she does not partake in the offers. \u201cSnoop is a lot of fun to work with, and we have a great time doing the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With her food editor of 20 years, Sarah Carey, at her side, Stewart spent the 45 minutes effortlessly from talking about her disdain for text messaging to preparing crepes flambe with cognac for her porters \u201cwho did not do a very good job of cooking\u201d while she was climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to stories about her parents, children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Stewart said carried a few small bottles of cognac in her pack on the 1993 trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis was up at about 16,000 feet, and when I poured in the cognac in and lit it, the flames went like 30 feet high,\u201d she told Friday\u2019s crowd. \u201cThey thought it was magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She told a touching story about still having her mother\u2019s first electric mixer that her father bought and \u201ctransformed their lives\u201d for her and her five siblings. She talked about her daughter taking her to Tasmania (\u201cwhy, I don\u2019t know\u201d) and her grandchildren teaching their friends how to use an empty mussel shell as a tool to get out the next mussel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s very elegant,\u201d she said as the crowd roared. \u201cAnd then to see these kids teach their friends, it\u2019s so cute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Suffice to say, Stewart\u2019s first Food &amp; Wine appearance was a hit. When she told the crowd she \u201chopes they invite me back again,\u201d many in the room already knew the answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/martha-stewart-has-capacity-crowd-engaged-at-her-first-food-wine-classic-in-aspen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marth Stewart gave her first Food &amp; Wine Classic seminar on Friday to a full house at the St. Regis. Along with her food editor Sarah Carey, left, Stewart talked about summer entertaining and had the crowd loving every minute of the 45-minute session.Jeremy Wallace\/The Aspen Times A full room listened and laughed Friday morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 17:46:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445362,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445342\/revisions\/2445362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}