Christopher Kimball's Milk Street
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street is a multimedia, instructional food preparation organization created by Christopher Kimball. The organization comprises a weekly half-hour television program seen on public television stations, a magazine called Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, a cooking school, a weekly one-hour radio program heard on public radio stations called Milk Street Radio, a website for video podcasts, as well as Milk Street Live! which broadcasts live cooking events.
Name and location
The organization is named after Milk Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It is headquartered in the Flour and Grain Exchange Building on Milk Street, which is in the Custom House District near Boston Harborwalk.History
America's Test Kitchen Lawsuit
On October 31, 2016, Boston Commons Press sued Kimball. The then-Brookline based company, which owns America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country, filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against Kimball that alleged he "literally and conceptually ripped off America’s Test Kitchen".The lawsuit claimed that Kimball was in breach of trust when he built his new business while still employed by ATK and that he used their company's recipes and databases to enable Milk Street to be in direct competition with ATK. Jack Bishop, the chief creative officer at ATK, stated that the Milk Street magazine was very similar to Boston Commons Press-owned Cook's Illustrated. Kimball founded that magazine and was editor until November 2015 when he left over a contract dispute. The lawsuit was settled in 2019.