If you're ever lucky enough to find yourself sitting down for Martha Stewart's farm, you can inevitably expect the finest pleasures in life: Corn soup with tiny croutons, her favorite tomato tart, pasta salad, and a cold beverage, created with a SodaStream.
Martha recently shared a photo of her summer tablescape, featuring soft pink woven placemats, cut crystal glasses, lilies, poppies, and roses – the perfect setting for her business lunch.
'Business discussions require a delicious lunch made from as many home-grown garden items as possible,' Martha says before running through her menu, including 'Fortmason Pomegranate iced tea and SodaStream sparkling water [that] served as cooling beverages.'
The concept of home carbonation, which led to the creation of SodaStream, originated in 1903 with Guy Hugh Gilbey. However, the first domestic machine, resembling the modern SodaStream, was released in 1955.
Since then, it has grown to be a staple of the modern American home, while still offering a sense of nostalgia to those who use it today. If you're wondering whether you should buy a SodaSteam, Martha may have just given you the answer.
Loved by Martha for a reason, the iconic Sodastream upgrades ordinary water into refreshing sparkling water instantly. It's perfect for creating personalized beverages with your favorite flavors, including Pepsi or Mountain Dew.
When searching for summer tablescaping ideas, Martha's arrangement serves as a beautiful starting point. Her pink placements and napkins, paired with the vintage-style crystal glasses, are utterly timeless (and the perfect environment for enjoying a cool beverage, whether it's made with a SodaSteam or not. However, aside from her decor, her menu is equally inspiring for a late summer lunch. In her blog, Martha shared more details of what the lunch involved.
'I, along with food editor and chef Sarah Carey, planned a wonderful early summer menu for nine guests that started with chilled corn soup – so refreshing and delicious,' she says.
'It was followed by an endive and radicchio salad, roasted carrots just picked from my garden, pasta salad with peas and fava beans also from my garden, and tomato tart. For dessert, everyone enjoyed homemade Meyer lemon cookies, brown butter shortbread cookies, and grapefruit granitas with berries and crème fraîche. It was an excellent lunch and a most productive and interesting meeting.'
We're making it even easier to get her look. Shop some hosting essentials, inspired by Martha's farmhouse table decor below.
This placemat brings just the amount of playfulness to your tabelscape, in a way that Martha Stewart would surely love. Pair with your favorite plates and cutlerly for a summery setting that will resonate with your guests long after the last course.
The delicate decorative lace dinner table napkin is soft and absorbent, meaning it's as beautiful as it is functional. Made from 100% cotton, it's designed to last for many dinner parties ahead.
These crystal wine glasses have been expertly hand-cut with a simple, hexagonal look that’s reminiscent of leaves. They add some interest to otherwise plain red wine glasses, but are not too out-there in terms of design.
