Christopher Kimball (born June 5, 1951) is an American radio/TV chef, editor, publisher and personality.
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Early life and education
Kimball was born and raised in Westchester County, New York, the son of Mary Alice White and Edward Norris Kimball. The family has a cottage in southwestern Vermont.
He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and then Columbia University (1973) with a degree in Primitive Art.
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Careers
Initial career
After graduating from Columbia, he worked with his stepbrother at a publishing company. Soon after, he worked for The Center for Direct Marketing in Westport, Connecticut and also started a cooking course. After earning $ 100,000 in angel investment from friends and family, he started Cook's Magazine from a small office in Weston, Connecticut in 1980 when he was 29 years old. He sold the magazine to the Bonnier Group in 1989 and moved on to another publishing venture.
The American Test Kitchen
Kimball is one of the founders and has been an editor and publisher of America's Test Kitchen, which produces television and radio shows, and publishes magazines, including Cook's Illustrated, which Kimball launched in 1993. It also publishes >> Cook's Country magazine, launched in 2004, and a former publisher of Cooks Magazine that is now dead . Company revenue comes from its readers, not advertisers, that distinguishes them from competitors.
The publishing division of his book is Two Pigs Farm. Boston Common Press, a private partnership between Kimball, Eliot Wadsworth II, and George P. Denny III, has Kimball publishing activities. Kimball also hosts a public TV cooking show syndicated by America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen.
On November 16, 2015, a press release from Boston Common Press, the parent of Cooks Country/Cooks Illustrated/Test Kitchen America, announced the departure of Christopher Kimball. The 2016 TV program has been filmed and Kimball emerges as the host, but his direct participation in the company ends soon. He remains a minority shareholder in the firm held tightly.
Christopher Kimball Milk Way
In 2016, he started a new venture, Christopher Kimball Milk Way, located at Milk Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
On October 31, 2016, the company behind America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Illustrated Magazine filed a lawsuit against Kimball at Suffolk Superior Court, claiming that Kimball "literally and conceptually ripped off" his former employer. In the suit, America's Test Kitchen claims that Kimball built his new venture while on the payroll, using company resources in recipes and databases to help shape Milk Street Kitchen into a direct competitor.
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He is the author of The Cook's Bible, The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook, Dear Charlie The Dessert Bible and Fannie's Last Supper , and a columnist for Boston-based New York Daily News and Communication Tab.
Other television appearances include This Old House and morning show Today and The Early Show . He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio. On January 8, 2011, Kimball began hosting the WGBH-FM's America's Test Kitchen Radio distributed by PRX.
Personal life
She's married three times. He has a son and three daughters with his second wife, Adrienne. They divorce in December 2012. On June 30, 2013, Kimball married Melissa Lee Baldino, executive producer of the American Kitchen Test show. He is now one of Christopher Kimball's founders of Milk Street.
Their son, Oliver Kimball, was born on May 4, 2017.
References
Source
Metcalf, Stephen (13 October 2003). "Nerds Sexy Food: Cooking enthusiasts get hot in the American Test Kitchen". Slate .
Further reading
- Baking Fannie Farmers With Victoria's Epic Party , NPR, October 14, 2010
- Halberstadt, Alex, "The secret to Christopher Kimball's success", The New York Times magazine , October 14, 2012.
External links
- Cook's Illustrated Magazine
- The American Test Kitchen
- Christopher Kimball at IMDb
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