The James Beard Award-winning founder of Milk Bar and host of Bake
Squad shares her personal stories and wisdom for igniting passion,
following your joy, and creating a satisfying life.
Dessert connects us heart-to-heart like almost nothing else. It brings
us together in good times and bad, celebration and solace. It marks big
and small milestones and creates memories of comfort and joy. And
Christina Tosi, the founder and CEO of Milk Bar, believes it can save
the world.
Does the combination of sugar, flour, and butter have some magical
ability to fix all the craziness of our modern existence? Of course not.
Tosi knows a cookie is just a cookie--but bringing the joy a cookie
holds into every area of your life most definitely can. The spirit of
dessert--the relentless, unflinching commitment to finding or creating
joy even when joy feels hard to come by--is what can save us. And then
we, in turn, can each save the world.
Tosi shares the wisdom she learned growing up surrounded by strong women
who showed her baking's ability to harness love and create connection,
as well as personal stories about succeeding in the highly competitive
food world by unapologetically being her true self. Studded with
personal and unorthodox recipes, Dessert Can Save the World reveals
the secret ingredients for transforming our outlooks, our relationships,
our work, and our entire collective existence into something boldly
optimistic and stubbornly joyful.
