Christopher Kimball is an Emmy Award-winning chef, television personality, and publisher. He is best known as the host of America’s Test Kitchen’s Cook’s Country. He also wrote the Milk Street: Cookie: Toss It Together recipe.
Fast facts
| Real name | Christopher Kimball |
| Nickname | Christopher |
| Date of birth | June 5, 1951 |
| Age | 71 years old |
| Birthplace | Rye, New York, America |
| Nationality | American |
| Profession | Chef, publisher, host |
| Height | 6 feet 5 inches |
| Weight | 65 kg |
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Black |
| Net worth | 20 million dollars |
Christopher Kimball Age and Early Life
He was born on June 5, 1951 in Rye, New York, America. He has a half brother. Edward Norris Kimballand was his father and Mary Alice White was his mother. They were of English origin. He received a master’s degree in traditional arts from Columbia University in New York in 1973. He previously graduated from Phillips Exeter School.
Christopher Kimball Height and Weight
Christopher Kimball has brown hair and black eyes. He is 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs around 65 kg.
Christopher Kimball Net Worth
How much is Christopher Kimball’s net worth? With his more than four decades of work as a chef, he has amassed a net worth of $20 million as of December 2023. His salary as a chef varies from $20,000 to $45,000. In addition, his salary as a cookbook author varies from $24,000 to $103,000. In addition, his salary as a TV host ranges from $31,000 to $121,000. In addition, he earns through his publishing company Milk Street.
Career
After graduating from university, Christopher Kimball began working with his half-brother in a printing house. He then joined the Center for Direct Marketing. At that time, he started taking cooking classes. Eventually, in 1980, he received a $100,000 investment and started his own Cook’s Magazine in Weston, Connecticut. He sold the magazine to the Swedish media company Bonnier Group nine years later. He went on to co-found America’s Test Kitchen. At that time, he was the director and owner of the company. Along with the job, he produced culinary periodicals such as Cook’s Pictorial and Cook’s Country.
In 2006, he started hosting the cooking show America’s Test Kitchen. In the continuation of the program, he presented the segment of the American test kitchen Cook’s Country. He left the company in 2016 to start his own business, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street on Milk Street in Boston. He is also a published novelist, and has written 20 novels to date. His works include The Cook’s Bible, The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook and The Succession Wars: Victor Wroth’s Further Travels.
Christopher Kimball Wife and Marriage
Who is Christopher Kimball’s wife? Melissa Lee Baldino is the wife of Christopher Kimball. Melissa, his wife, is also the co-founder of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street. The ceremony took place on June 29, 2013 at the Memorial Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Robert M. Randolph officiated at the service. The couple met for the first time during an audition for the position of his secretary in 2002. She was not chosen at the moment.
When Kimball’s first assistant quit two months later, he promoted her to the same position. Over time, they became close friends. As of now, the couple has a boy named Oliver Kimball. He was born on May 4, 2017. Kimball was previously married to Adrienne Kimball in 1987. Caroline, Whitney and Emily Kimball are their three girls and Charles is their son. After more than two decades of marriage, they divorced in 2012. He was married before that. However, until that date, this union remained a secret.
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