Episode ninety: A Special Food Show With Christopher Kimball And Matt Sartwell

If last week’s show was for the history buffs today is for the people that love to eat. Today we have a gargantuan show with Christopher Kimball of Milk Street and Matt Sartwell of Kitchen Arts and Letters. First, we’ll play my recent interview with Christopher Kimball, the cook with the bowtie. You might know him for his work with America’s Test Kitchen where he founded the classic food magazine Cook’s Illustrated. The magazine famously accepts no advertising and tests every recipe until they’ve exhausted every possible combination they can think of. He left America’s Test Kitchen in 2015 and went on to found Milk Street. 

Milk Street focuses on changing the way you cook and as Chris will tell us, his exploration of other food cultures both influenced his choice to leave America’s Test Kitchen and inspired Milk Street. As he states on the Milk Street website, the company extends "an invitation to the cooks of the world to sit at the same table.” 

After my interview with Christopher, we’ll head to New York where we’ll step inside the famed bookstore, Kitchen Arts and Letters. I was fortunate to geek out about cookbooks with Matt Sartwell, who’s the managing partner at the store. We’ll talk about kitchen reference, books for beginners, and more. It’s not only a store for home cooks, because Julia Child and James Beard stopped by as well. The store was founded by Nach Waxman in 1983 and has been America’s best known culinary bookstore ever since. Nach died in 2021 but has been remembered by the culinary community for his love of cooking and sharing that love with the world.

This episode was such a joy to create for you guys, I hope you enjoy.

Ezra
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