Doing Lunch

Martha Stewart showed President Clinton how to do lunch with good taste and domestic style. She was hostess of a political fund-raising luncheon ($5,000 a plate) and dessert reception ($1,500 per person) in Connecticut on Monday, raising $500,000. On the menu: oven-cured tomatoes and marinated artichokes, peachwood-smoked salmon, sugar-snap peas, Julie’s flatbread, tarragon chicken salad tea sandwiches, pecan shortbread and Alexis’ brown sugar chocolate chip cookies. “I loved the food,” Clinton gushed. “I know it’s all supposed to be light, but if you eat enough of it,” it is filling. He then mentioned Stewart’s popularity and added apparently not intending a double meaning “There’s no telling how much she’s broadened my base today.”