There must have been some last-minute changes that didn’t get properly reviewed. Or some pages were rushed through production. Something had to have gone seriously wrong, because there were several mistakes in the Martha Stewart Holidays publication I bought at Whole Foods and anything with Martha’s name on it is typically scrupulously edited.
Let’s start with the cover, which is the scene of something that may not be a mistake but isn’t usually done. I would say “In The” should have a lowercase i and t, because short prepositions and articles tend not to be capitalized in headlines. Of course, the editors decided to lowercase the h in “holidays,” so all capitalization/lowercasing bets may be off.
I found what I would call two errors on the same page that was part of a package titled “The Thanksgiving Playbook.” (As far as I can tell, none of the articles I’ll mention are on marthastewart.com.) The first one is admittedly nitpicky.1 I think leaves should be deleted after "1 bunch fresh sage." You don't get sage leaves in a bunch; you get sage sprigs in a bunch. And there's no "leaves" after "parsley."
The hyphen after white isn’t wanted in the stuffing recipe above. With the hyphen, it seems to read like “white-green and light-green parts only.”
In a collection of pie recipes, there’s an error that could have been caught by a spell-check2: fruit and filling need a space between them.
From an article titled “As Hue Like It,” there’s a comma splice, or comma fault, at bend in this caption; a semicolon should separate the two independent clauses that start with “The shammash has” and “position the other,” the latter of which has the implied new subject “you.”
Finally, in a collection of recipes headlined "The Main Event," the it that has all on both sides of it in the above caption needs to go away. Maybe there had been a concern about having all twice, separated by a comma, and an incomplete fix was made.
1The adjective nitpicky, the nouns nitpick and nitpicker, and the verb nitpicking are hyphenless, but the noun nit-picking takes a hyphen, so says Merriam-Webster.
2M-W is fine with spell-check, spellcheck, or spell check as the noun's spelling but likes spell-check for the verb. The noun spellchecker definitely doesn't take a hyphen.