Chef Intel
BY
Jasmin Sun
| POSTED OCTOBER 3, 2012 AT 4:33PM EDT
Christina Tosi at the Milk Bar Commissary in Williamsburg. // © Jasmin Sun
Whether she’s dealing Crack Pie, or throwing everything from toffee and pretzels to coffee grounds and potato chips into her best-selling Compost Cookies, Momofuku Milk Bar chef-owner Christina Tosi is infamous for her madcap take on dessert. "You know when they’re burning fields of something? It tasted exactly like how that smells.” »
The Week in Food
BY
Jasmin Sun
| POSTED JUNE 22, 2012 AT 9:00AM EDT
The Week in Food looks at noteworthy food or food-related inventions, announcements and other "firsts" throughout history.
Chewy, crumbly and often crispy too, chocolate chip cookies are an obsession of first-time bakers and experts. But the perfect and seemingly obvious combination of semisweet chocolate bits and sweet, buttery dough is actually the result of a baking accident by a woman born this week, on June 17, in 1903.
The delicious accident. >>>
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