Christina Tosi

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Christina Tosi is the chef, founder and owner of Milk Bar, called “one of the most exciting bakeries in the country” by Bon Appétit magazine. Christina founded the dessert programs at Momofuku restaurant in New York and went on to build a culinary empire of her own from the ground up. She opened Milk Bar’s doors in 2008 and since then, hundreds of people flock to her stores daily to try one of her highly addictive and genius creations, including Cereal Milk ice cream, Compost Cookies and Crack Pie. Christina also started the trend for “naked cakes,” popular for their unfrosted sides. The culinary trendsetter and sugar genius is the recipient of two James Beard awards, including Outstanding Pastry Chef, author of two acclaimed cookbooks, Momofuku Milk Bar and Milk Bar Life, and a judge on the hit cooking competition series MasterChef and MasterChef Junior on the Fox Network. In addition to being a role model to her staff of over 200, this highly motivated and down home lady boss serves on the Board of Directors for Hot Bread Kitchen and Cookies for Kids’ Cancer and on the advisory boards for the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) and Journee.

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0:00.0	This is Chef Emily Peterson, host of Sharp and Hot.
0:02.9	You're listening to Heritage Radio Network broadcasting live from Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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0:15.1	Boys and girls are on fire at. Boys and girls are all fired up.
0:21.6	Boys and girls are all fired up.
0:23.6	Hi everybody, welcome to the season finale of Radio Cherry Bomb. I'm Carrie Diamond. And I'm
0:41.7	Claudia Wu. And we're the co-founders of Cherry Bomb magazine, the indie publication about
0:47.5	women and food. We have a great show today, because it's the last one, we asked Christina
0:53.6	Toese to come and join us. Hey,
0:55.9	Christina. Hi, lady. Yay. We've wanted you on the show for so long. I know. You're finally here.
1:01.5	So, I'm so excited to be here. How perfect. Us too. As you may or may not know, Christina was on the
1:08.1	cover of our last magazine. The new issue actually just came out yesterday
1:12.3	with Lena Dunham and Jenny Connor on the cover. But it's, we were telling Christina,
1:16.4	it's always kind of bittersweet when we, you know, kind of put one issue to the side and focus on
1:21.3	the new one. And it was sad when he said by you. I know, but I was so excited for the new cover. It looks like it's going to be an amazing show. I can't wait to get my hands on it. It's a fun one. It's a good read. If I say so myself. If I may say so. So, yeah, so it's the last show of the season. We had such a nice, I mean, we had so many really terrific people on the show this
1:45.1	season. I feel like we were really, really fortunate. This was the first full season that Claudia and I
1:49.9	hosted. So we thank all the listeners. Maybe we should just go out on top and call it a day.
1:56.3	Call it. And you would love that. So thanks to everybody who listened all season long.
2:01.6	I know everyone's really excited to hear us talk to Christina.
2:07.0	We're doing a little giveaway on Instagram right now.
2:09.1	And someone will win a signed copy of Christina's new book, Milk Bar Life, which is a really fun book.
2:16.0	And just to give you a sense of how people feel about Christina Tosi, someone named, let's see, Sparrows, Spatulas, wrote, the federal
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