I know there are several of us that follow Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen... Well, ATK is suing Christopher Kimball (who founded the joint) over his new venture, Milk Street.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business...NiK/story.html
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Christopher Kimball’s divorce from America’s Test Kitchen Inc. isn’t going to be an amicable one after all.
The Brookline company behind the Cook’s Illustrated magazine and the “America’s Test Kitchen” and “Cook’s Country” public TV shows filed a lawsuit Monday against Kimball in Suffolk Superior Court, accusing the firm’s most prominent former employee of disloyalty, saying he “literally and conceptually ripped off America’s Test Kitchen.”
The claim: The celebrity chef breached his trust with his former employer by building a new venture while still on the ATK payroll and using the company’s databases and recipes to position the venture, known as Milk Street, so it would directly compete with America’s Test Kitchen.
Complicating matters: Kimball still owns a small minority stake in the company and appears in reruns of shows on public TV that were filmed before he left in November 2015.
More at the link.
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If true, this is pretty shitty. I did get a copy of the inaugural edition of the Milk Street magazine, and it is a carbon copy of Cook's Illustrated.