Offers an introduction to old-fashioned, country-style cooking with a collection of 300 all-American recipes, focusing on cooking with inexpensive ingredients such as grains, vegetables, pasta, poultry & low-fat cuts of meat that are synonymous with good nutrition.
Chris Kimball founded
Cook's Magazinein 1980; it has grown to a paid circulation of 1,000,000. He hosts
America's Test Kitchenand
Cook's Country, which are the top-rated cooking shows on public television, reaching 2 million viewers per week in over 94% of American households. Kimball is a regular contributor to both the
Today Showand the
CBS Early Show. He has been written up in most major newspapers, many national magazines, including
The New Yorkerand
Time, and regularly contributes to NPR's
Morning Edition, including doing a regular Thanksgiving segment. He will also host a public radio show on cooking starting in the fall of 2010.