Join Christina Tosi, the playful founder of Milk Bar and host of Bake Squad on Netflix, as she whips up signature treats like compost cookies and beer bread. The conversation takes a creative turn, exploring how baking fosters connection and self-expression. Tosi emphasizes the joy of culinary experimentation and the importance of resilience in both baking and entrepreneurship. With humor and nostalgia, she shares how unique pantry ingredients reflect identity and celebrates baking as a heartfelt language of love and friendship.
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Childhood Baking Lessons
Christina Tosi learned baking through trial and error as a child, experimenting with cookie dough ingredients she loved.
Her grandma stopped baking with her because she kept eating the cookie dough before baking.
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Baking as Creative Chaos
Baking for Christina Tosi is about chaos and creativity, not precision or control.
Experimenting simultaneously with variations helps find the best recipe outcomes.
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The Power of "What If?"
Asking "What if?" fuels creativity and experimentation in baking and life.
This mindset encourages defying rules and combining unexpected ingredients.
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For Christina Tosi’s third visit to A Bit of Optimism, we decided to find out. So we headed to Milk Bar to make compost cookies from things in my own pantry and my favorite beer bread from scratch!
Christina’s not just my best friend—she’s the founder of Milk Bar, host of Bake Squad on Netflix, a cookbook author, and a fan favorite on this podcast. She lives by one simple question: what if?
In this experimental episode, we dug into some big ideas about creativity, uncertainty, and the magic of trying something new. Recipes below!
This...is A Bit of Optimism.
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A Bit of Optimism