Christina Tosi

About

Christina Tosi (born 1981) is an American chef and cookbook author. She is founder and co-owner with Momofuku of Milk Bar and serves as its chef and chief executive officer. She also created Milk Bar Pie and Cereal Milk. Food & Wine magazine included her in their 2014 list of “Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink”.
She is the author of several cookbooks. She has served as a judge on the reality competition MasterChef and presented for the Netflix series Bake Squad. She has won two James Beard Foundation Awards.

Tosi was born in 1981 in Berea, Ohio; her father, Gino Tosi, was an agricultural economist and her mother managing partner in an accounting firm. The couple divorced while Tosi was a teenager, and she was raised primarily in Springfield, Virginia. She has an older sister, Angela. Tosi recalls not being allowed to say “I can’t” or “I’m bored”.
Her interest in baking dates to her childhood; both of her grandmothers are “avid bakers”, according to Tosi. Her parents were both fond of sweets. She ran track in high school and still runs regularly. She was interested in math and foreign languages. In college she worked serving tables and then as a prep…