Article: The Baltimore Sun Rob Kasper column: Kimball, magazine don't take low-fat recipes lightly.

Byline: Rob Kasper

Apr. 12--Christopher Kimball is a reluctant advocate of lighter eating.

His history -- I met him 22 years ago when he was throwing a New York soiree honoring James Beard, Craig Claiborne and Julia Child -- is that of a full-flavor guy. When his colleagues at Cook's Illustrated, the magazine he founded, approached Kimball a few years ago with the idea of doing a cookbook of light fare, he resisted. Most light food, he believed, tasted like penance. But his staff persisted. Readers interested in losing weight wanted "lighter" fare. So Kimball relented. What convinced him, he says, was eating a slice of light cheesecake that ...

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