Toni Chapman: The Moody Foody

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Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Toni Chapman aka The Moody Foody is a culinary content creator, recipe developer, and new cookbook author. She grew up cooking and hosting frequent gatherings with her family, but Chapman didn't realize her love for food could be a job until after a brief stint as a bank teller. While working at the bank, she began making elaborate lunches for her then boyfriend to take to work. After getting fired from her job, Chapman decided to turn her lunch-making hobby into a full-fledged meal-delivery service in NYC called ToniCooks. After running and growing the business for five years, she took her culinary expertise to TikTok, teaching people how to cook her favorite comfort meals. As her platform grew, Chapman leveled up her recipe-development skills and joined Buzzfeed's Tasty program as on-camera talent. Most recently, she released her debut cookbook, Everything's Good: Cozy Classics You'll Cook Always and Forever.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. I'm Hilary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who What Where,
0:11.6	and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:18.8	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the
0:21.7	process of setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their
0:27.5	second life. Today on the show, I'm speaking with viral culinary content creator Tony Chapman,
0:34.7	aka the Moody Foodie. If you're like me and you love food,
0:39.7	you may have seen one of Tony's mouth-watering recipes in your feed,
0:44.0	like her Jamaican curry chicken or her oven-baked ribs.
0:48.4	Tony taught herself how to cook when she was just seven years old,
0:51.4	but she wasn't always a food guru.
0:54.0	She actually studied business and
0:56.0	started her career as a bank teller. When Tony was fired from that job, she quickly pivoted
1:01.6	into the culinary space and launched Tony Cooks, a New York City-based meal delivery service
1:07.4	that she initially bootstrapped from her kitchen. Her business was catapulted
1:12.3	into the spotlight when she posted a tweet asking people to buy her meals so she could make
1:17.1	ends meet after getting let go, and it went viral. Tony's online presence only grew during the
1:23.4	pandemic when she started making content on her TikTok in 2020, posting videos of herself
1:28.8	making her favorite meals as The Moody Foodie. Her work eventually caught the attention of the
1:34.2	folks at BuzzFeed, who tapped her to be a content producer and on-camera talent for their popular
1:39.6	tasty program. And now, after years of sharing delicious meals online and teaching her audience of
1:46.2	millions how to make them at home, Tony's bundled some of her favorite recipes into her
1:51.0	debut cookbook, Everything's Good, Cozy Classics You'll Cook Forever. The book is a beautiful
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