Strike Back: Chris Kimball Returns

Who exactly asked for this?

This guy looks like a smug bastard and the ATK people describe him as a total nightmare. I hope he fails and ends up as some sous chef for Rachel Ray!

Yeah he's a dick but he's edited some really popular cooking mags.

I saw an episode of his show. He hovers over his cooks, but isn't a dick to them like he'd be on ATK.

Asshole.

He hates spices, which is so odd.

He’s a great visionary. His persona on ATK, is just that....a persona that he developed for television.

I look forward to seeing his new venture.

Today, his cook showed an interesting way to do pie crusts that took out all the guesswork about how much water to add -- you measure out 3 Tbsp water and mix with 2 tsp cornstarch and then freeze into a gel (about 20 minutes). You then add this to 2 cups and 2 tbsp flour in a food processor and cut it in. Then you cut in your two sticks of butter and process until it comes together. The water/cornstarch adds the right amount of moisture each time.

We discussed the new show a bit on one of the ATK threads here.

We talked about his radio show -- I was surprised today when I bumped into the new TV show...

I commented about the TV show. I've only seen one episode -- the one with "central Mexico" as its theme.

But will he make dump cakes?

Not if he expects to live!

This week's show also showed that in Europe, bakers tend to under mix and under whip and it makes for fluffier baked goods.

Has he never heard of dermabrasion?

He may be pretentious, but his recipes really work and are delicious.

He’s old, straight and rich R15. Guys like that have other concerns than dermabrasion.

I can't stand that after he left ATK they gave Bridget and Julia makeovers and tried to make them into a comical cooking duo. It seems so forced.

I am watching Cook's Country, the other show CK did with ATK and it is the same show as ATK except in a different place.

Why does he hate spicy food?

Is it an affectation?

I don’t like him. He’s fucking homely! And an asshole.

How many women did he sexually harass at his old job?

Today, we learned how to make Thai BBQ chicken in the oven.

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This show finally showed up on my PBS station. It's a remake of America's Test Kitchen. The big difference is there is some emphasis on non-white people and non-white food. R20, Christopher Kimball has typical WASP tastes, which don't include spicy food or dusky skin tones. Black pepper and cinnamon were the spiciest things in the kitchens of most of the U.S. until about 30 years ago.

My concern is there is a saturation of similar cooking shows on PBS, and somebody will have to leave the network, or sadly, get canceled.

You can just look at him and tell he’s got a #metoo article coming.

I like his shows. But he always seems angry about something. Kinda weird.

I have followed his Milk Street product since its outset; I received email published recipes and received complimentary issues of the first two print copies of the magazine as a result. I've made two of the few recipes from both issues of the magazine that appealed to me, and the resounding response is meh. I am a good cook so it isn't a matter of fucking up the recipes or recipes that somehow fuck up the cook's efforts - the overall flavors were meh. I understand that he's shooting for a potentially different demographic and distinguishing his new culinary venture as far removed from CC and ATK as possible, but it just falls flat, in my humble opinion. The Milk Street PR marketing team is constantly sending out pleas to subscribe; it seems more frantic than the usual marketing hype. I'd be curious to know how the new venture is doing in the marketplace but I am not interested enough to google it.

He looks too much like Barney Fife. Fuck hum.

Is he cut?

The only thing appealing about this new show is Matthew Card.

I'm glad that Bridget and Julia seem to have settled better into their ATK roles. They have lots of new appealing cast members, too.

I want that Dan Souza inside me, deeply.

Matthew Card and Dan Souza. Tag Team! Yes!

I read one issue of the Milk Street Magazine. It was boring. And it was half the size of Cooks Illustrated Magazine

I watched a bit of the Milk Street show.

First, that title is awful. No one wants a visual of a street of milk, whether or not 'milk' is a euphemism.

Kimball and his twinky, fey chef were prepping the food about 2 feet away from a live audience. Kimball was obviously there to make the crowd laugh but his "jokes" were mostly nasty comments about the chef's techniques. At one point, the chef made a nasty comment back and Kimball pretended to play along but you could tell that he was surprised by the insolence. The audience just laughed and laughed like sheep on command.

Awful. I lasted about 10 minutes before I changed the channel. Kimball is NOT the star of any show, the cooking is. Why doesn't he understand that?

Interesting tidbits in the lawsuit's complaint against him. He is on his third marriage to his former assistant, a woman who is half his age, which seems to be where the problems started. I agree a #METOO would be inevitable except he married her. His ex-wife got half of his ownership interest in ATK, good for her. I think this new venture is going to fail. He needs to hang it up; no one wants to see him in this.

R35 The show is based at 177 Milk Street in Boston. They record the tv and radio shows there, it's the location of their cooking school and production offices. I don't disagree with you about the title but locally people know what the title refers to - a downtown Boston location in the financial district famous for being one of Boston's earliest highways. Yes, a pretentious choice for his product name.

I like him, but he really did dick ATK and Cook's Illustrated over. How he can win the lawsuit, I have no idea. Even though the flavors he is now embracing are expanded, the tone, tenor, and model of his new podcast, tv show, and subscription based magazine/book model clearly mimics ATK/CI. I can't even get ATK podcast on iTunes anymore because of him. I wish I knew the dirt behind the falling out.

r36 Not only is his current wife his former assistant, wife #2 was originally his assistant before she was promoted to wife. Gives a whole new meaning to "up or out" promotion environment.

Matthew Card pings to high heaven, but he keeps mentioning his kids and he has a wedding ring. Of course he could be married to another man, I suppose.

Count me as one of the many who just assumed Ms. Kimball is a FOD.

Did he get his gray teeth fixed for this new show?

He always seems to have such a bad attitude- very unpleasant to watch. Plus everything they made on that damn show had at least 30 different steps.

He's such an asshole. I caught two minutes of his Milk Street tv the other day. He is so uncreative and incapable of carrying a show on his own, he had to recreate the ATK format. He was sniping at the chef the other day, like he used to do on ATK, except he was even pissier than before.

Watched 3 minutes of Milk St. That was enough. Never again. I hate this asshole. And he’s so fugly!

Dr. Z might be able to help him with that complexion.

Watching one time was enough for me. The show sucks. Sadly, though ATK and CC suck a little more without him. The two women together aren't as good. I think I most hate the failed attempt at humor between the women.

I like Bridget and the other lady whose name I can never remember. I don't know if they can carry the show on their own, but I like them. I like Chris Kimball's persnickety nature too. I don't know how to feel about that he got Sara Moulton to appear on his podcast - I love her! I feel like a child of divorce, I can't choose between ATK and Milk Street. It was definitely a "dick move" by Christopher Kimball though.

I wonder if he knew Mr Rodgers! There all on the same channel.

The kitchen set for "Milk Street" is blindingly white. Is Kimball trying to tell us something?

I see it as being oppressively bland, much like Kimball himself.

Picture this...

[quote] When I sat beside him at C.I.'s Tuesday-morning editorial meeting, Kimball was shod in fire-engine red Italian oxfords and had draped a long scarf of some kind of really good angora-type fabric around his shoulders

Kimball is a dick, but that NY Times article I'd a gas.

Today I found out Matthew Card has a wife. "matthew card husband" was a suggested search, though. I will settle for Dan.

I don't want to live in a world where Matthew Card is straight.

Why exactly did he leave ATK? I never heard the details. I stayed at the Cooks Country house in Vt a couple of years ago. It's beautiful. They don't shoot there this year I guess because CK owns it.

That Dan Souza can cum inside me, anytime.

I like watching the old episodes where the girls weren't fat.

I think ATK and Cook's Country are way more entertaining since Kimball departed. Milk Street is the most boring cooking show on PBS. He feigns a rapport with all of the cooks on the show but it just doesn't ring true.

Dan Souza is way cute...bet he's hairy in all the right places! Matthew Card is married with 2 kids. ATK is better than that Milk Street shit...and Mr. Kimball looks like a dead corpse...no color.

[quote]Mr. Kimball looks like a dead corpse

As opposed to a LIVE corpse?

Cook's Country was nominated for a daytime Emmy. Take that, Kimball.

the new show sucks. Weird dishes that no one would want to make and I miss the taste testing and product reviews. I bought lots of good kitchen things based on ATK product reviews over the years.