Will Martha Stewart ever retire? At the rate she’s going, probably not.
The celebrity cooking and home decorating diva, who recently turned 82, is on a roll with one project after another stacking up like traffic on the George Washington Bridge.
On Monday, she talked about those projects as the keynote speaker kicking off the MAGIC, Project and Sourcing at MAGIC trade shows at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Recently, the octogenarian spent two months preparing for her Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot, which made history when she became the oldest woman to appear on the cover of the much lauded edition. “It was a lot of fun, and the response to it was really encouraging because it made women of all ages feel that if I can do it, then they can do it, too. And that is what the objective was,” she said, sitting onstage being interviewed by Booth Moore, the West Coast executive editor for WWD.
Stewart arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday evening in time to celebrate the one-year anniversary of her first restaurant collaboration with Caesars Entertainment, The Bedford by Martha Stewart, located at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. It’s a replica of Stewart’s 1925 farmhouse in upstate Bedford, New York, and incorporates many of her favorite recipes, including roast chicken, a very Instagrammable bread basket, and a “Martha-tini” with Polish vodka, nodding to her heritage.
But the businesswoman, who turned a catering business into a lifestyle empire, is on to other things so vast it is hard to keep track of them, unless you’re Martha Stewart.
She is writing her 100th book, comprising 100 of her favorite recipes with stories attached to each one. That debuts in October.
That same month, she is hosting a “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” event at the Tiffany & Co. flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan with Daniel Boulud at his Blue Box Café. It is part of the New York City Wine & Food Festival, which raises money…
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