Two momentous sociocultural events took place in America on Tuesday. Surely nobody missed the election of the first Muslim, first millennial, first African-born, first South Asian-descended mayor of the country’s biggest city. More than a million New Yorkers cast their vote for Zohran Mamdani — a Democratic socialist who, at 34, is also the youngest person to have landed the job in more than a century.
But you might very well have missed the re-release, 43 years after its initial publication, of Entertaining, the first recipe book from the now 84-year-old Martha Stewart. Recent documentaries have brought America’s original domestic goddess back into the cultural zeitgeist and turned the out-of-print 1982 version of the book into a collectors’ item. So her publishers decided to reissue it for a new cohort of Gen-Z enthusiasts.
The fact that demand still exists for a book that devotes an entire chapter to “The Omelet Party” (you know, the omelet party?), is striking enough. But the even more significant thing about the reissue is the fact that not a single word has been changed.