Christopher Kimball
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Christopher Kimball in 2016
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June 5, 1951 Rye, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (B.A., 1973) |
| Spouse(s) | Melissa Lee Baldino (m. 2013) Adrienne Kimball (m. 1987–2012) (4 children) |
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Christopher Kimball (born June 5, 1951) is an American chef, editor, publisher, and radio/TV personality.
Kimball was born and raised in Westchester County, New York, the son of Mary Alice White and Edward Norris Kimball. The family had a cabin in southwestern Vermont.
He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and then Columbia University (1973) with a degree in Primitive Art.
After graduating from Columbia, he went to work with his stepbrother in a publishing company. Soon after, he worked for The Center for Direct Marketing in Westport, Connecticut and also started taking cooking courses. After securing $100,000 in angel investments from friends and family, he started Cook’s Magazine from a tiny 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 other publishing ventures.
Kimball was a co-founder and has been editor and publisher of America's Test Kitchen, which produces television and radio shows, and publishes magazine, including Cook's Illustrated, which Kimball launched in 1993. It also publishes Cook's Country magazine, which was launched in 2004, and former publisher of the now-defunct Cook's Magazine. The company's revenue comes from its readers, rather than advertisers, which differentiates him from his competitors.
Its cookbook publisher division is Two Pigs Farm. Boston Common Press, a private partnership between Kimball, Eliot Wadsworth II, and George P. Denny III, owns Kimball’s publishing activities. Kimball also hosts the syndicated Public Television cooking shows America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen.
On November 16, 2015, a news release from Boston Common Press, parent company of Cooks Country/Cooks Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen, announced the departure of Christopher Kimball. The 2016 TV programs had already been filmed and Kimball will appear as host, but his direct participation in the company was ending immediately. He remains a minority stockholder in the closely held company.
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