
Kimball and his team of culinary experts have been doing all of this for nearly a decade for the readers of
Cook’s Illustrated, which has been called "the Consumer Reports of cooking."
Christopher Kimball founded
Cook's Magazine, a national magazine for cooking hobbyists, in 1980 and served as founder, publisher and editorial director through 1989. In 1993, Kimball relaunched
Cook's Magazine as
Cook's Illustrated. Mr. Kimball serves as publisher and editor of the new
Cook’s, which has more than 650,000 paid readers per issue. Kimball is also the host of the hit public television show
America’s Test Kitchen and the author of
The Cook's Bible,
The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook,
Dear Charlie,
The Dessert Bible and
The Kitchen Detective. Kimball is a frequent guest on
Weekend Today and the
CBS Early Show. He lives in both Boston and Vermont with his wife, Adrienne, daughters Whitney, Caroline and Emily and his son Charles.