num_pages: 240
description: The James Beard Awardwinning 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. Desserts mark big milestones and small wins and create indelible memories of comfort and joy. And Christina Tosi the founder and CEO of Milk Bar believes it can save the world. Does she really think the combination of sugar flour and butter has some magical ability to fix all the craziness of our modern existence? Of course not. Even with her trademark exuberance for baked goods that has touched millions of lives through her products books and television shows 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 dessertthe relentless unflinching commitment to finding or creating joy even when joy feels hard to come byis what can save us. And then we in turn can each save the world. In Dessert Can Save the World Tosi chronicles her path to success in work and life. Along the way she shares the wisdom she learned growing up surrounded by strong amazing women who passed along the legacy of baking to harness love and create connection with others as well as personal stories about succeeding in the highly competitive food world by unapologetically expressing her true self. Tosi also shares a few very personal and unorthodox recipes of course. Dessert Can Save the World reveals all the secret ingredients for transforming our outlooks our relationships our work and our entire collective existence into something boldly optimistic and stubbornly joyful.
language: English
title: Dessert Can Save the World: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes for a Stubbornly Joyful Existence
publisher: Harmony