“I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and t...” — Christina Tosi Quote

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

Know who you are and stay true to it. Have a point of view, keep your head down when noise tries to drown out your inner voice, and whatever you do, keep pushing.

I have this nook at Milk Bar that's my office, and my desk was just full of every box of Kellogg's cereal, and at different times during the day, I would open up a box, eat a bowl of cereal, and I live in a world of Post-it notes, so I would leave tasting notes on all the cereal.

I took a Chinatown bus to New York to enroll in the International Culinary Center's pastry program.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.