1. Christina Tosi was born on 1981 and is an American chef and cookbook author.
23 Facts About Christina Tosi
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Christina Tosi is founder and co-owner with Momofuku of Milk Bar and serves as its chef and chief executive officer.
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Christina Tosi has served as a judge on the reality competition MasterChef and presented for the Netflix series Bake Squad.
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The couple divorced while Christina Tosi was a teenager, and she was raised primarily in Springfield, Virginia.
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Christina Tosi recalls not being allowed to say "I can't" or "I'm bored".
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Christina Tosi ran track in high school and still runs regularly.
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Christina Tosi studied electrical engineering for one year at the University of Virginia and graduated from James Madison University with degrees in applied mathematics and Italian, then enrolled in the French Culinary Institute's pastry arts program.
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Christina Tosi went to New York and worked at Bouley, interned at Saveur, and then worked at wd~50.
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Christina Tosi found the exacting plating required in fine dining wasn't something she enjoyed and decided she didn't want to work as an executive pastry chef in fine dining restaurants.
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Christina Tosi had In 2005 helped to write wd~50s Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan.
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Chang hired Christina Tosi to create the plan, then eventually to do other administrative work and liaise with the NYC Department of Health.
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Now not baking professionally, Christina Tosi started baking at home again and brought her homebaked items in for other staff.
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Christina Tosi created the original logo herself by simply typing 'milk' in Brush Script Medium.
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Christina Tosi's approach was to use pastry chef techniques to create comfort-food influenced desserts served in a casual setting.
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Christina Tosi serves as Milk Bar's chef and chief executive officer.
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Christina Tosi developed recipes such as Cereal Milk, Compost Cookies, Crack Pie and Candy Bar Pie.
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Francis Fabricant said Christina Tosi "made Cereal Milk soft-serve and the Compost Cookie household names".
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Christina Tosi joined the judging panel of MasterChef on Fox beginning with its sixth season, which premiered May 20,2015, as well as the fourth season of MasterChef Junior, which premiered November 6,2015.
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Christina Tosi has presented for the Netflix series Bake Squad and been a judge on Chopped.
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At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Christina Tosi launched Bake Club, a virtual space where participants could bake alongside her daily.
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Christina Tosi has made advertising appearances for Subaru, American Express, Kellogg's, Estee Lauder, and Verizon.
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Christina Tosi received the James Beard Foundation award for Rising Star Chef of the Year for her work at Milk Bar in 2012, the first pastry chef to do so.
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On July 30,2016, Christina Tosi married New York City-based restaurateur Will Guidara, co-owner of Eleven Madison Park.