How Pastry Goddess Christina Tosi Is Bringing Milk Bar to the Masses

The dessert pro talks MasterChef, endorsement deals and Crack Pie

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This past spring, around the release of Christina Tosi's second cookbook, Milk Bar Life, the James Beard Award-winning pastry chef was the subject of a lengthy think piece on the popular food blog Eater likening her to pop star Taylor Swift. But the comparison had nothing to do with Tosi's musical abilities or an affinity for dating bad boys. Rather, it was due to the fact that Tosi, like Swift, is the kind of fun, domestically inclined girl's girl you want to be best friends with. 

Christina Tosi Photo: Brakhax2

Tosi has amassed her own legion of dedicated fans since opening the first Milk Bar bakery—a sweet spinoff of David Chang's Momofuku empire—in Manhattan's East Village seven years ago.

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