<P> After graduating from Columbia, he went to work with his stepbrother in a publishing company . Soon after, he worked for The Center for Direct Marketing in Westport, Connecticut and also started taking cooking courses . After securing $100,000 in angel investments from friends and family, he started Cook's Magazine from a tiny office in Weston, Connecticut in 1980 when he was 29 years old . He sold the magazine to the Bonnier Group in 1989 and moved on to other publishing ventures . </P> <P> Kimball was a co-founder and has been editor and publisher of America's Test Kitchen, which produces television and radio shows, and publishes magazines, including Cook's Illustrated, which Kimball launched in 1993 . It also publishes Cook's Country magazine, which was launched in 2004, and former publisher of the now - defunct Cook's Magazine . The company's revenue comes from its readers, rather than advertisers, which differentiates them from the competitors . </P> <P> Its cookbook publisher division is Two Pigs Farm . Boston Common Press, a private partnership between Kimball, Eliot Wadsworth II, and George P. Denny III, owns Kimball's publishing activities . Kimball also hosted the syndicated Public Television cooking shows America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen . </P> <P> On November 16, 2015, a news release from Boston Common Press, parent company of Cooks Country / Cooks Illustrated / America's Test Kitchen, announced the departure of Christopher Kimball . The 2016 TV programs had already been filmed and Kimball appeared as host, but his direct participation in the company ended immediately . He remains a minority stockholder in the closely held company . </P>

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