Christina Tosi Biography
Christina Tosi is an American chef, author, and television personality. She is the Pastry chef/owner, “Momofuku Milk Bar” in New York City. Her restaurant, “Momofuku Milk Bar”, is a part of David Chang’s “Momofuku Restaurant Group”. She is the chef, founder, and owner of Milk Bar, the sister bakery to the Momofuku restaurant group, with locations in six cities across North America.
Christina Tosi Age and Family
Tosi was born on 9 November 1981 in Ohio, USA. She is 37 years old. Her Zodiac Sign is Scorpio. Tosi was born in Ohio and raised primarily in Springfield, Virginia to an agricultural economist father of Italian origin and to an accountant mother. The names of his parents and siblings have not been disclosed.
Christina Tosi Height and Body Measurements
She is a 5 feet and 8-inch tall woman, with green eyes and a pretty, long stylish hair, while she’s not wearing a chef hat. She is a woman with style and has a great outfit.
Christina Tosi Education
Tosi studied to be an electrical engineer for a year at the University of Virginia. she later spent time in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, to see if she wanted to be a translator. Eventually, she graduated from James Madison University. After graduating, she moved to New York and enrolled in the French Culinary Institute’s pastry arts program.
Christina Tosi Milk Bar
Tosi entered the culinary field at the fine dining restaurant, Bouley, and then advanced to wd~50. In 2005, she helped to write wd~50’s Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan.
David Chang hired Tosi in 2005 at Momofuku to write his food safety plans and help administratively with the NYC Department of Health. Chang was so impressed with Tosi that he hired her to run their pastry program. There were no desserts on Chang’s menu when Tosi came on board. She created her own pastries, putting her extreme spin on childhood.
Tosi to open her own shop, which she named Milk Bar. She had free rein to develop new recipes and the menu soon featured her trademarked Cereal Milk, Compost Cookies, Crack Pie and Candy Bar Pie. By 2012, Milk Bar had grown from one retail sales location in the East Village of Manhattan.
It had nine retail outlets in New York City, one in Toronto, Canada, three in Washington, D.C., one in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and one in Los Angeles, CA on Melrose Avenue. Tosi opened her first Boston-area store in Harvard Square in Cambridge Massachusetts.
With a unique partnership with &pizza, a Washington D.C.-based pizzeria chain. The Boston store was Tosi’s 16th Milk Bar. by February 2019, Milk Bar employed 381 people across North America.
Media appearances and features
Tosi joined the judging panel of MasterChef on Fox beginning with its sixth season. The show premiered 20 May 2015, and the fourth season of MasterChef Junior, which premiered 6 November 2015. In April 2018, an episode of Chef’s Table: Pastry featuring Tosi debuted on Netflix.
In April 2015, Tosi was featured on an episode of Conan making sweet desserts with leftover candy and a hammer. In 2015, Tosi was asked to serve on the judging panel for the Fox reality TV cooking competition shows MasterChef and MasterChef Junior. She appeared in a television ad for Subaru in 2014. She also did promotional work for American Express, Kellogg’s, and Estée Lauder.
Christina Tosi has been featured in a variety of national publications:
- Tosi was featured on a list of “Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink” by Food and Wine Magazine in 2014.
- Tosi was featured by Glamour in 2014 in “The Power of Taking Risks and the Magic Behind Momofuku Milk Bar”.
- Tosi has been featured multiple times by the Wall Street Journal.
- Tosi has been featured multiple times by The New York Times.
Christina Tosi Net Worth
Tosi is an American chef and entrepreneur who has a net worth of over $5 million. She was born in Ohio and graduated from James Madison University.
Christina Tosi Husband | Christina Tosi Pregnant
Tosi is married to Will Guidara. The couple married in 2016. Tosi has no children yet and she is not pregnant. William Guidara is an American restaurateur based in New York City. Along with chef Daniel Humm, Guidara is co-owner of the hospitality group Make It Nice, established in 2011, which owns and operates Eleven Madison Park, NoMad New York, NoMad Los Angeles, NoMad Las Vegas, NoMad Bar and Made Nice.
Christina Tosi Left Masterchef and Masterchef Season 9
MasterChef is a competitive cooking show produced by Endemol Shine Group in 60 countries around the world. In the UK, it is produced for the BBC. Season 9 of the American competitive reality TV series MasterChef premiered on Fox on May 30, 2018.
Gordon Ramsay and Aarón Sanchez return from last season as judges, while former judge Joe Bastianich returns to the show as the third judge, replacing Christina Tosi. This season introduced a new format to the show, as the three judges each selected eight contestants to give aprons to, and then the judges mentor their respective contestants throughout the competition.
Christina Tosi Recipes | Christina Tosi Cookbook
Momofuku Milk Bar shares the recipes for Christina Tosi’s fantastic desserts—the now-legendary riffs on childhood flavors and down-home classics (all essentially derived from ten mother recipes)—along with the compelling narrative of the unlikely beginnings of this quirky bakery’s success. It all started one day when Momofuku founder David Chang asked Christina to make a dessert for dinner that night. Just like that, the pastry program at Momofuku began. For information on this cookbook please click here.
Christina Tosi Cookbooks
- Momofuku Milk Bar
- All About Cake
- Milk Bar Life: Recipes & Stories
Christina Tosi Cupcake Recipe
Christina Tosi Cookie Recipes
Christina Tosi Cakes | Birthday Cake
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Christina Tosi Netflix
Tosi episode of Netflix’s culinary documentary series Chef’s Table: Pastry explores how the New York City-based chef/restaurateur built a trend-setting bakery inspired by her love of classic American treats.
Christina Tosi Crack Pie
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Christina Tosi Instagram
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