The former employee says that Martha Stewart stole one of his recipes

Sarah Gross says that the lifestyle entrepreneur took credit for her work in the 80s.


A new CNN documentation on Martha Stewart is called The many lives of Martha Stewart , and it is undeniable that the title is correct. The 82 -year -old Started as a model , then became a broker in securities, then moved into the food sector as a caterer, author of cooking books, and possibly a television host, whose media company made her a billionaire. Obviously, she did not do alone, and a former employee says that Stewart took the merit of her work. In documents, Sarah Gross says that the lifestyle entrepreneur stole a recipe for him and published it in his first book, 1982 Entertaining , which helped establish his career in this industry.

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As indicated by the Daily mail ,, The recipe in the center of controversy is for a cranberry nut pie. In The many lives of Martha Stewart - In which Stewart did not participate - Gross says that she first raised the recipe when she applied for a job with Stewart. She also claims that she and Stewart ended up touring together several times when they worked together as caterers. She was disappointed when she saw the recipe Entertaining And when Stewart promoted the recipe on television without giving it the credit.

"They were so part of the repertoire that who knows if she even remembers that it was my recipe," explains Gross.

Docuseries include a clip for a Stewart television appearance to promote the book. Asked about the recipes, the future magnate says: "Many of them are recipes that I have made all my life, and many of them are just created for the book."

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Big said in the documentation that she has moved away from her work because she did not have enough credit, and she did not think that her salary or her title reflected her position, which, according to her, managed the catering company.

She claims that she was paid from $ 8 to $ 10 per hour when she worked for Stewart.

"I don't think I have been paid more than that, and I was doing so much for her," said Gros.

She remembers having set up a meeting with her boss and her husband, Andrew Stewart . "I told him that if I was going to give my heart and my soul, and at that time, I felt like I was, that I needed a title. I needed something To call me in relation to this company that had grown in front of me. "Gros said thatrew said to him:" Martha will be as tall as McDonald's, and we do not give that. " The ex-employee added: "It's Martha, she had a vision of the place where she wanted to go and nothing was going to get in her way."

According to The Washington Post , the problem with the recipe is probably not legal , because revenues can rarely be protected by copyright in the United States, the newspaper notes that Stewart thanks Gross in the thanks for Entertaining , specifically for raw vegetables. That said, there is a Cranberry pie in nut crust Recipe on the Stewart website which seems to be the same as Gross says that it has created.

According to Daily mail , Stewart spoke of working with Gross The Podcast Martha Stewart In 2023 during a discussion on a recipe, she called the chocolate chip cookies at the brown sugar of Alexis, after her daughter, Alexis Stewart .

"Forty-five years ago, when Alexis developed the recipe for me, this recipe was an evolution," said Stewart. "Sarah Gross, who worked for me in my catering business. She had this delicious cookie recipe and I asked her the recipe and she wouldn't give it to me. So I told Alexis, I gave her the Cookie and I said "Here, make this recipe. And in two tests, she had the recipe. You know, it could have been Sarah's famous chocolate. Sorry Sarah, but it's Alexis."

A description of The recipe on the Stewart website Said: "The recipe for these brush chocolate chocolate cookies comes from Martha's daughter, Alexis Stewart, who has been making them since about 12 years."

Better life contacted Stewart to comment on the complaints of Gross.


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