MARTHA STEWART LIVING is edited for discerning, quality-conscious readers. Its goal is to inform and inspire, to teach and demystify a broad range of subjects. Combining great style and useful information, the magazine celebrates the simple things people do in their everyday lives: gardening, entertaining, renovating, cooking, collecting and creating. From how-to information to pure inspiration, we encourage our readers to dream, then show them how to realize their dreams.
Even if you will never make a "gourd candle" or a "Fortuny-inspired tablecloth," Martha Stewart Living can't be beat for its wealth of ideas concerning what Martha calls "good things." A crafter for craft's sake, and an obsessively organized woman (just look at her personal calendar, included in the first few pages), there is no concept or task that is too mundane for Martha. Like Martha herself, the magazine is impeccably organized--recipes and decorating instructions appear with full-color photos, each filed in their own sections of "cooking," "keeping," "crafts," "home," and "collecting." Learn to slip matched sets of bed linens into one of their pillowcases for easy and convenient shelving, make washcloth mitts, and coordinate mismatched towels with decorative ribbon. A whiz at flower arranging, dinner parties, card and sewing crafts, and decorating, Martha covers and conquers all areas of the home--plus weddings, baby showers, and holidays. --Daphne Durham

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Summary: Living ....
Comment: Wonderful magazine. Great ideas and tips for the kitchen, children, and home. About even with the advertising and articles.

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Summary: Apartment Number Issues
Comment: If you live in an apartment, be weary of buying this product. It is sold through 2 vendors before getting to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Even though I provided the apartment number with the address, the magazine was not delivered. It's been 4 months since I ordered it, and it still hasn't arrived. Calling for help just points fingers at another company (Amazon -> Synapse -> Newsub Magazine -> Martha Stewart).

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Martha Stewart...enough said
Comment: As with everything that comes from Martha Stewart Omnimedia, the magazine is clean, crisp, thorough and informative. The content and visual appeal of Martha Stewart publications is unmatched. How they continue to present fresh and exciting ideas each month is beyond me, but they do. Great subscription to have.

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Summary: Superior Lifestyles for the Aspiring Suburban
Comment: `Martha Stewart Living' appears to be the flagship publication of the company which bears the Martha Stewart name, but it is actually more accurately seen as the vehicle for publicizing this company's other products, such as the books and radio and TV broadcasts. This does not mean the magazine is poor or in any way suffers in comparison to its competition. This is especially true since the `Martha Stewart' books, going back to the classic `Entertaining' and her TV shows are genuinely superior to her competition.

`Martha Stewart Living' has always been a guilty pleasure of mine, ever since I retired and adopted as my first goal to master good housekeeping and cooking. On the subject of cooking, I generally got little from Martha's mag, as I already had a sizeable collection of cookbooks from my earlier forays into cooking ambitions. But now, I was forced to cook, so I took more notice.

If you compare the cooking features with similar material in `Gourmet', for example, you will find slightly less fancy and slightly more practical recipes overall. The real difference is seen when `Living' does its articles on basic techniqes. Here, `Gourmet' and most similar magazines are left in the dust. This was especially true when Susan Spungen was chief culinary editor, and it shows up in spades in the `Martha Stewart Manual of Baking', which is an enhanced collection of material from the magazine. If nothing else, the `Living' crew of photographers really know their stuff.

Now no one in their right mind with a household budget of less than $100,000 a year and almost complete leisure will seriously expect to take all of Martha's advice, and Stewart never pictures her audience as the few people in this category. But, like millions of people with modest salaries who vote Republican, they aspire to incomes where low taxes and lower governmental control is a `Good Thing', to borrow Martha's catch phrase.

Stewart's pieces on collectables and handicrafts are always high end, but never really out of reach of the person with a strong interest in the subject. If, for example, Easter is really important to you, the magazine's Easter egg crafts offer a wealth of suggestions. Similarly, the gardening articles are all practical, even if you don't have an acre in the back of the house.

I always found `Martha Stewart Living' also far more congenial than similar older magazines such as `Good Housekeeping' and `Better Homes and Gardens', as these seemed just too pointedly addressed to women, and never quite got their style out of the 50's. It is the highest form of flattery that when Time Inc. came out with a competing magazine, `Real Simple', that it copied the `Living' style to a tee (not to mention the copying done by Oprah Wifrey and Rosie O'Donald with their mags.

I always tried to separate Ms. Stewart's personal life with the quality of her work and the excellent work of her company, as represented in this publication.

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Summary: living magazine
Comment: I like "living" because it has tasty recipes that generaly call for ingredients I probably already have, also good down-to-earth articles and ideas. I resubscribed and started receiving the magazine in less than 6 weeks.

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