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Ask Yourself "What If?" with Milk Bar Founder Christina Tosi

2025/6/3
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Christina Tosi: 我一直秉持着实验精神进行烘焙，愿意尝试别人觉得不可能的组合和方式。我享受烘焙过程中的不确定性，并从中寻找突破和创新。即使面对失败，我也能从中学习，并不断改进。这种实验精神不仅体现在我的烘焙中，也影响着我作为企业家的决策，敢于突破常规，探索无限可能。 Simon Sinek: 我非常欣赏Christina的实验精神，她总是能提出“What if”的问题，并勇于尝试。这种对可能性的探索是Milk Bar成功的关键。烘焙不仅仅是遵循食谱，更是一种从失败中学习的教育。从失败中学习，敢于冒险，才能不断成长。同时，烘焙也是一种表达爱意的方式，通过制作美味的食物，我们可以与世界建立联系，传递关怀和温暖。

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This chapter explores Christina Tosi's baking journey, from her childhood experiments with cookie dough to founding the wildly successful Milk Bar. It also delves into the unique naming of her company and her approach to baking as a form of self-expression and love.
  • Christina Tosi's early baking experiences involved trial and error, not strict recipes.
  • Milk Bar's name is a blend of nostalgic reference to Dairy Queen and the Momofuku restaurant naming convention.
  • Tosi's baking philosophy emphasizes experimentation and a 'what if?' mentality.

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What if this podcast turned into a baking show?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.You can watch the video version of this episode on YouTube here).For more on Christina and her work, check out:christinatosi.com)----------------------------Simon's Compost Cookie Recipe (makes 15-20 cookies):

  • 16 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2/3 cup tightly packed light brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons glucose syrup
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • Maltesers
  • 85% dark chocolate
  • Optimism Coffee grounds
  • Granola
  • Space/Astronaut Ice Cream
  • Kettle Corn Pop Chips

For the full step-by-step recipe, visit Milk Bar's website)!Beer Bread Recipe:

  • 3 cups self-rising flour
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 4 tablespoons honey (or to taste)
  • 12 oz beer (Samual Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout is Simon's preference!)
  • 2 tablespoons butter (and save a little for the top)

Mix ingredients slowly togetherBake at 350 for 45-60 mins until baked through----------------------------This episode is brought to you by True Classic!I really love True Classic T-shirts, so we called them up and asked if they wanted to work together. And they said yes! Check out their clothes at: trueclassictees.com)