Christopher Kimball and America's Test Kitchen Settle Lawsuit.

[elleng]

'Both sides agreed to move on years after Mr. Kimball started Milk Street, a similar cooking and media venture.

The long legal battle between America’s Test Kitchen and Christopher Kimball, the company’s founder who left and started a similar cooking and media enterprise called Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, is over.

Both sides have resolved their differences, which came to a head in October 2016 when America’s Test Kitchen sued Mr. Kimball and three of his closest associates. The suit accused them of creating a new venture that “literally and conceptually ripped off” America’s Test Kitchen, the Boston-based television, radio and publishing empire that Mr. Kimball helped create, in order to start a competitor. Milk Street, which debuted its magazine in 2016, also produces cooking instruction, cookbooks and other media, including a radio show hosted by Mr. Kimball.

“Mr. Kimball will return his ATK shares to the company for an undisclosed price,” both sides said in a joint statement released Thursday. “In addition, the parties have agreed to business terms that will allow America’s Test Kitchen and Mr. Kimball’s company, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, to coexist in the marketplace.”

The parties had been set to meet in Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts in October.

“America’s Test Kitchen and Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street agree that an amicable separation is in the best interest of their respective companies,” the statement said.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/dining/christopher-kimball-americas-test-kitchen-lawsuit.html?

Thought y'all would be interested.

[sandensea]

1. I miss his show

I'm no foodie, mind you. If it's not heat-and-eat, I can't make it.

But I always enjoyed his interactions with his experts on this and that.

His show almost made me want to learn to cook. Almost.

[sharedvalues]

2. Kimball started the new company with his new wife

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2017/01/20/adrienne-chris-kimball-lawsuit/




https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/fashion/weddings/all-the-ingredients-were-there.html?_r=2&

The bride and groom work at America’s Test Kitchen, the Boston company that produces the television and radio shows of the same name and publishes Cooks Illustrated magazine. Ms. Baldino is the executive producer of the shows; Mr. Kimball is the founder and president of the company and the host of “America’s Test Kitchen,” which is shown on public television.

The bride, 37, graduated from Boston University. She is a daughter of Rike Fössl Baldino and Jim J. Baldino of Portland, Me.

The groom, 62, graduated from Columbia. He is the son of the late Mary Alice White of Salisbury, Conn., and the late Edward Norris Kimball of Bethesda, Md. The groom’s first and second marriages ended in divorce.

[napi21]

3. I still watch Am Test Kit every Sat. At first I missed him on the shows, but I've gotten used to

the lady stars and still enjoy the show. I watch Milk Street most of the time, but not as faithfully as ATK. It's a good show, but he does almost all International dishes. Many are really good, but some are just beyond my eating imagination. I'm glad they came to an agreement and both shows will remain on TV.

[Callalily]

4. I don't particularly like Milk Street.

I still watch ATK, and I still enjoy watching it.

[mitch96]

5. I like them both but don't care for Kimball

A little too arrogant for what he has to offer. Then again that's me.
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[tishaLA]

6. Milk Street Radio show is better than the TV show IMO

I listen to it on podcast and it's informative and fun, plus he answers questions with Sarah Moulton in the same way he answered questions with Brigid Lancaster on the old ATK radio show (which no longer exists and has been replaced by a podcast called Proof hosted by Ms Lancaster).

I do like a lot of the international flare of Milk Street TV, though, even if it's a bit pretentious at times. It even manages somehow to be pretentious about its lack of pretentiousness.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Glad things worked out. APT is showing MS eps all day Sat and Sunday.

They feature a lot of cuisine from Middle East/North African -- including Senegal(!), Turkey, Morocco, Israel, Armenia, Palestine ... some Oriental later in the day ... sure beats yet-another-grilled-meat-on-the-barbie from ATK in my book.