Interviews with...
Chris Kimball
Founder and editor of Cook's Illustrated magazine
and also host of America's Test Kitchen
Cookbook: The first album/CD/eight track you bought?
CK: Meet the Beatles.
Cookbook: What was your first car?
CK: 1961 VW Beetle, white.
Cookbook: Your favourite junk food?
CK: Mallo cups.
Cookbook: What kitchen gadget, or piece of equipment can't you live
without?
CK: My custom chef's knife.
Cookbook: Your favourite ingredient, or food?
CK: Apple pie, with Vermont cheddar cheese
Cookbook: Most over-rated ingredient,
or food?
CK: Coriander.
Cookbook: What was the first cookbook you used?
CK: Two books actually, The James Beard Cookbook and The
Joy of Cooking.
Cookbook: Your
favourite authors, doesn't have to be cookbook authors?
CK: William Manchester, Jan Willem van de Wetering (Dutch mystery writer).
Cookbook: Your
favourite city?
CK: Fez, Morroco - having just visited!
Cookbook: What is your greatest extravagance/indulgence?
CK: My children.
Cookbook: Your favourite movie?
CK: Murder My Sweet, based on the Raymond Chandler novel.
Cookbook: What was your
first job?
CK: My first full time job was at a photo processing lab at 45th St
and 3rd in New York, lots of chemicals! But my first summer job
was milking cows, much more fun.
Cookbook: What kind of music do you like?
CK: Grateful Dead and Italian Opera, not necessarily together.
Cookbook: Your favourite
sports team?
CK: Red Sox!
Cookbook: Your pet peeve when dining out?
CK: Waiters who want to be my friend.
Cookbook: Your favourite drink?
CK: Old fashioned.
Cookbook: If you could change one thing in the food & wine industry
what would it be?
CK: Make entrees as good as appetizers!
Cookbook: Who has been the biggest influence
on your career?
CK: Marie Briggs, the local town baker, who also
cooked for her neighbour Norman Rockwell.
Cookbook: What four people, alive or dead, would you invite
to dinner? (assuming you would invite your significant other to
have six
around the
dinner table!)
CK: Calvin Coolidge, John Mortimer, Mark
Twain, Billie Holiday.
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