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Christopher Kimball (born June 5, 1951) is an American editor, publisher, and radio and TV personality. He is one of the founders of America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country and the creator of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street.
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, Kimball worked 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. In 1980, after securing $100,000 in angel investments from friends and family, he started Cook’s Magazine out of an office in Weston, Connecticut. He sold the magazine to the Bonnier Group in 1989.
Kimball was a co-founder, as well as editor and publisher, of America’s Test Kitchen, which produces television and radio shows, and publishes magazines, including Cook’s Illustrated, which…
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