100 Quotes by Christina Tosi

Any team member, any community member wants and needs to know they count, that they're welcome, and that they're important.

A bright lipstick is a quick way to glam up my look.

I feel like a lot of the pastry chefs and chefs I worked for and worked under were always really, really big on the philosophy of 'everyone's in it together in the food world.'

I like to be in over my head always, at all times.

I need healthy options around, or else if I get hungry, I'll go straight for a cookie.

I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out of cookbooks. I like cookbooks for the commentary or the pictures or the history.

I think a lot of people think being in the kitchen is being really serious, and especially that baking is very serious, very straitlaced. For me, it's about figuring out your voice, finding your personality, and getting in the kitchen to explore.

I make a huge batch of cinnamon buns on Christmas Eve and bake them off early Christmas morning.

I chose a career in the kitchen because the thought of sitting and doing the same thing every day and being stationary was not something that I could get my head around.