Christopher Kimball's Milk Street is a multimedia, instructional food preparation organization created by

Christopher Kimball Christopher Kimball (born June 5, 1951) is an American Editing, editor, Publishing, publisher, and radio and TV personality. He is notable as one of the founders of ''America's Test Kitchen'' and ''Cook's Country'' and as the creator of ''Christ ...

. The organization comprises a weekly half-hour television program seen on

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stations, a magazine called ''Christopher Kimball's Milk Street'', a cooking school, a weekly one-hour radio program heard on

public radio Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) is radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service with a commitment to avoiding political and commercial influence. Public broadcasters receive ...

stations called ''Milk Street Radio'', a website for video podcasts, as well as Milk Street Live! which broadcasts live cooking events.

Name and location

The organization is named after Milk Street in

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. It is headquartered in the

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on Milk Street, which is in the

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near Boston Harborwalk.

History

America's Test Kitchen Lawsuit

On October 31, 2016, Boston Commons Press sued Kimball. The then-Brookline based company (now based in Boston), which owns ''

America's Test Kitchen ''America's Test Kitchen'' (originally ''America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated Magazine'') is a half-hour long American cooking show broadcast by public television stations and Create and distributed by American Public Television. Orig ...

'' (ATK) and ''

Cook's Country ''Cook's Country'' is an American half-hour television cooking show on public television stations and Create and distributed by American Public Television. The show is based on ''Cook's Country'' magazine (published by the same company as ''Co ...

'', filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against Kimball that alleged he "literally and conceptually ripped off America’s Test Kitchen". The lawsuit claimed that Kimball was in breach of trust when he built his new business while still employed by ATK and that he used their company's recipes and databases to enable Milk Street to be in direct competition with ATK. Jack Bishop, the chief creative officer at ATK, stated that the Milk Street magazine was very similar to Boston Commons Press-owned ''

Cook's Illustrated ''Cook's Illustrated'' is an American cooking magazine published every two months by America's Test Kitchen Limited Partnership (ATK) in Brookline, Massachusetts. On February 2, 2023, ''Cook's Illustrated'' was one of ATK's brands included in th ...

''. Kimball founded that magazine and was editor until November 2015 when he left over a contract dispute. The lawsuit was settled in 2019.

Milk Street Cafe Lawsuit

Kimball's Milk Street Organization was also sued by the Milk Street Cafe, owned by Marc Epstein, for trademark infringement. Epstein's Milk Street Cafe, established 35 years earlier, is located nearby at 50 Milk Street. The lawsuit was decided in Kimball's favor.

Television

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Season 8

''Milk Street Radio''

Milk Street also produces a weekly hour-long radio program titled ''Milk Street Radio'', distributed by the

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to a number of

stations and networks for weekend airing. It also features TV chef and cookbook author

Sara Moulton Sara Moulton (born February 19, 1952) is an American cookbook author and television personality. In an article for ''The New York Times'', Kim Severson described Moulton as "one of the nation’s most enduring recipe writers and cooking teach ...

. It premiered on October 20, 2016. ''Milk Street Radio'' is also distributed as a

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Magazine

Each issue of the magazine is 30 to 40 pages and is published 6 times each year.

References

External links

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