Live Episode! Milk Bar: Christina Tosi (2019)

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🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

For Christina Tosi, baking wasn't just a delicious childhood hobby—it was a daily creative outlet and a way to blow off steam. After college, she went to culinary school and honed her pastry technique at high-end restaurants in NYC. But she also craved the opportunity to make unfussy, nostalgic desserts like the ones she grew up eating. So in 2008, Christina opened her first Milk Bar bakery in the East Village, with the help of her mentor, Momofuku chef David Chang. Soon, people from around the country were calling her up, begging for her gooey pies, confetti birthday cakes, and pretzel-potato-chip cookies. Today, Milk Bar has spread to 15 locations, and reportedly brings in tens of millions of dollars a year. This show was recorded live at The Town Hall in New York City. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.0	When you leave home, can you ever really go back?
0:12.0	Made a version!
0:13.0	Soccer legend Leo Messi and I both left Argentina as kids.
0:17.0	You know you're that piece of a puzzle that doesn't fit anywhere.
0:20.0	To so many immigrants, football is a way to reconnect.
0:23.0	Listen to the last cop in the embedded podcast feed
0:26.0	to hear the latest collaboration from MPR and Fuduro Studios.
0:30.0	Hey everyone, so I don't know if it's actually possible to get a sugar rush.
0:35.0	Just from listening to a podcast, but hey, why not see if that happens when you listen to my conversation
0:40.0	with Christina Tozi, founder of Milk Bar.
0:43.0	It's one of our favorites from the archives I spoke with Christina in front of a live audience in New York City back in September of 2019.
0:51.0	I hope you enjoy.
0:56.0	I just remember my blackberry kept buzzing and buzzing and I was like, what is going like?
1:00.0	Did the bakery catch fire? Is my family okay?
1:03.0	What could this possibly be? And I had all these voicemails.
1:06.0	And my favorite voicemail was from this woman in Kansas City
1:11.0	who I think maybe was someone's grandma.
1:14.0	And she was just like, well I heard, you know, Anderson Cooper talk about this crackpot
1:18.0	and I'm never going to make it to New York. So like, would you mind shipping me one?
1:23.0	And it was like, are you going to tell her? Are you going to call her back and tell her no?
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