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 foundedCook's Magazinein 1980; it has grown to a paid circulation of 1,000,000. He hostsAmerica's Test KitchenandCook'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 theToday Showand theCBS Early Show. He has been written up in most major newspapers, many national magazines, includingThe New YorkerandTime, and regularly contributes to NPR'sMorning Edition, including doing a regular Thanksgiving segment. He will also host a public radio show on cooking starting in the fall of 2010.