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Kenji used to be part of Cooks Illustrated, that produces America's test kitchen, which had Kimball as his boss there. Kimball was fired from ATK and his image
by Larrikin 5y ago
Kenji used to be part of Cooks Illustrated, that produces America's test kitchen, which had Kimball as his boss there. Kimball was fired from ATK and his image scrubbed from there. Kenji seems to still be friends with Kimball and has had a couple guest appearances.
- binarycrusader 5y agoWhether Kimball was fired from there depends on who you ask -- Kimball says he was fired, ATK's board claims he refused to continue to be involved, etc. Not a pretty situation; Wikipedia has more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Kimball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Kimball With that said, I highly recommend Milk Street. I've cooked hundreds of their recipes at this point and it's incredibly rare that I don't enjoy one of them. They have a great staff and guest appearances from many of the people (Alex, Kenji, et al.) referenced in the comments on this story. Also yes, sorry, I had watched an episode recently where Kimball mentioned Kenji used to work for/with him and assumed that was Milk Street but it looks more likely it was Cook's Illustrated.
- tptacek 5y agoIf you read between the lines on the two competing lawsuits, ATK hired a CEO to manage Kimball, who had one foot out the door and was already preparing to start a competing company which he'd own, unlike ATK where he was a minority partner. One way to read the situation is that he was "constructively" terminated --- that ATK would keep him on the books, but had planned to remove all his authority.