Christina Tosi: Never Ending Desserts Instead of Dinner

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Rachel Belle

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Milk Bar founder, chef and CEO Christina Tosi loves dessert so much, she would happily give up savory foods for three square meals a day of cookies and milk and ice cream. We talk about the special cake her husband designed for their wedding (that he made her promise to never make for anyone else), the career she almost chose instead of baking and the wacky flavor creations her colleagues won't let her put on the menu.

Christina is known for flipping childhood classics and suburban grocery store staples on their heads, and spinning them into fantastical, crave-worthy cakes and cookies. Her three-tiered, rainbow sprinkle flecked, naked birthday cakes are one of Milk Bar's signature desserts.

So we investigate the history of the birthday cake (why is it ubiquitous to celebrate with cake?) and birthday candles with Alysa Levene, author of Cake: A Slice of History and Anne Byrn, author of 15 books including her newest, A New Take On Cake.

Christina has a new children's book out called Every Cake Has A Story.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
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0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle.
0:31.0	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:34.1	Today on the program, Christina Toese.
0:40.3	Christina is the founder, CEO, and James Beard Award-winning chef of Milk Bar, a much-beloved bakery with locations in six cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas.
0:45.6	She's written four whimsical cookbooks and been a judge on Master Chef, Master Chef Jr., and
0:51.1	the new Netflix show, Bakes Squad. She also has a new, adorable children's book
0:56.1	called Every Cake Has a Story. Christina is known for her multi-tiered funfetti-style naked birthday cakes,
1:03.3	topped with crunchy birthday crumbs and rainbow sprinkles. But Christina is an equal opportunity cake
1:08.6	lover. Can you get down with just a grocery store sheet cake?
1:11.6	Oh, don't even get me started.
1:13.3	I mean, that for me is like where I loved cake.
1:15.4	The way that I eat a grocery store sheet cake,
1:17.7	I literally spoon, frosting, I scrape that cake clean.
1:22.3	I think the in-store bakeries and grocery stores
1:24.5	are a pretty marvelous place to be.
1:27.0	Thanks to Christina, this is our birthday cake episode.
1:32.1	We'll learn the history of the birthday cake and why we light birthday candles with
1:36.6	Elisa Levine, author of Cake, a slice of history.
1:40.3	And Anne Byrne will tell us why cakes became the celebration food. She is a cake historian and
1:45.6	cookbook author. Her brand new book is called A New Take on Cake. But first, my conversation with
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