My Secret to Creating Real Magic | Christina Tosi | TED

In an infectiously joyous talk, Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi shares the sugary jolt of her first food memory and behind-the-scenes stories of her bakery's famously inventive cakes, cookies and treats. This talk may make you hungry -- but it'll also leave you a resonant message about how breaking the rules and challenging your assumptions can make for a sweet life.
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[@enzosica412]

I get chills every time I hear Christina talking about food

[@yunjiecai8251]

She is so inspiring. All of us can brake the rules and create a 'real magic'.

[@deusizrwild]

serious your a payed review

[@c.anderson3136]

I seen, loved and watched Christina Tosi tell her story on Chefs Table so many times it doesn’t shock me to see she has a TEDtalk this woman is magical! 💕💕💕💕 so inspiring 💫💫💫

[@louispasteurhere]

Protect her at all cost, we need more ones like her. Thank you so much for making me smile naturally

[@invox9490]

This entire talk is: "Candy and Cakes are awesome!" Yeah, I KNOW RIGHT!? 😋

[@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134]

Love this. I was lucky to be raised by amazing women and accidental magic has permeated my life. Now I was thinking about deliberate magic and this popped in.

[@LieveLeysen-Discover-]

You have really been blessed 🤩💖😇

[@tetepeb]

I wonder what they do with the cereal after they strained the milk out, i hope they don´t just throw it away.

[@dilnozakenjaboyeva220]

Wonderful

[@jimcockburn4652]

Excellent Speaker. Life is magic!

[@princeofdarkness1261]

I’m a blind man. And my mother taught me her secrets of baking fruit pies with the greatest crusts in the world. I broke the rules and created a perfect double crust. Doubling the best part of the pie. I bake them. And I give them away. To the ladies at the bank. To random people never expecting a magic, double crust blueberry pie. And I throw in a pint of top shelf vanilla ice cream. I know this magic you speak of. I also triple the chocolate chips in my black walnut chocolate chip cookies and ripen them in a copper tin so the fragerence enchants the beholder. And they come with a bottle of whole farm fresh icy cold milk. Bless you fellow conjuror! Bless you! Can I come work in your bakery? I’m all alone in this world. There are no fairies or Christmas mornings where I live.

[@KrisPaape]

Would you mind sharing your recipes?? You are inspiring as well!!!

[@ligiasommers]

I don’t eat sweets but she is inspiring 🙏🏻🥂✨

[@kobe9213]

loved watching her on masterchef!

[@rasheedalhouni87]

I liked this story Because she talks about the difference in life

[@RobinDavisStudio]

I agree wholeheartedly!!! MAGIC is a feeling!! OXOX

[@boyangzhao5020]

Unbelievable my purpose of watching TED Talks is to improve my Listening Ability!

[@boyangzhao5020]

Though I can’t hear lots of words of this video she said, but just do it !

[@shreypatel8406]

I love how TED is able to bring really really intelligent people whose name we never heard of.

[@candyglover330]

She's pretty popular and owns several restaurants

[@kevinth66]

And she's been a judge on several seasons of Masterchef with Gordon Ramsay.

[@user-hw9it7km4z]

great video

[@stefanlyu4489]

Thank your

[@Hostileminds]

I see Christina tosi doing a Ted talk… yeah of course I’ll click.

[@antoinerobertsjr862]

Rockin w her

[@gayathris2108]

It was magical talk.

[@MrZacchery]

We need many more magical people in many other fields; they have always been out there, but they could be more common.

[@letlovebackin]

Thank you for sharing this with us 🥹😊♥️

[@RoseFury]

I was watching bake squad yesterday and today you are on ted💞

[@user-en8fu6ll4y]

She's so nice)

[@tetepeb]

Im dying to try her stuff but you can´t get any in Sweden and i can´t travel...

[@Dr.alihossamo]

so inspiring

[@arep1030]

She deserves the standing ovation. What a great talk and a great speaker. But what the most amazing thing is that she never stop smiling through out the talk

[@bz3086]

Arep, Its female pride. Its a woman's world

[@KJ14565]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@auntied4950]

That was a long advertisement.. Nice that they share recipes though.

[@AzazelsWings]

You are a most beautiful soul.

[@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134]

Takes one to know one ;-)

[@AzazelsWings]

@@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134 😘

[@weazytv]

2. INFORMAL•BRITISH wonderful; exciting. "what a magic moment"

[@clothearednincompoop]

Real Magic? _"“I’m writing a book on magic”, I explain, and I’m asked, “Real magic?” By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. “No”, I answer: “Conjuring tricks, not real magic”. Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic."_ - philosopher Daniel C. Dennett

[@clothearednincompoop]

"Tosi" in Finnish means "real" as a side note. 😀

[@wagwanbennydj6003]

White sage activated!

[@Pro720HyperMaster720]

Good talk over all, that I enjoy but 10:55 would be better to decide your organization heads based on their value as employees instead of based/excluding by gender, that’s definitely not a thing you should copy or be inspired by

[@claravoyant4061]

Baking is magic you have the same ingredients but the cake my sister makes from a box or even her experimental seasalt icecream cake was amazing because we share a birthday. I had a bashing twin because my mom wanted to fit in to her size zero wedding dress while two months pregnant. My sister came in the middle of my fifth birthday. All my friends were sent home I was alone . I loaded up my presents to see the new sister at the hospital. Every present. They are for her it's her birthday now. And she is the greatest present I ever got. She is the sam to my Dean. And I ate that experimental seasalt icecream cake. Because she made it with love spent days experimenting. I had always wanted an ice ream cake but dairy was forbidden because my mom was intorent of lactose and so we ordered pizzas with no cheese. They say smell is most associated with memory. Like I used lavander oil to study for the SATs. But I can't get that seasalt ice cream taste outofmy mouth or that memory that makes me cry because she is the most magical person I know. Keep fighting Sammy.

[@sdan9859]

Real Magic is high dimensional tech supported by spirit

[@eyaltb]

Longest commercial ever

[@peggyharris3815]

Any diabetics enjoying this video?

[@Tiarzwigeo]

Wow

[@hogpashon]

Christina I like the cereal as well!

[@homewall744]

Do you REALLY remember that event, or do you only recall it after the story has been retold repeatedly?

[@LieveLeysen-Discover-]

🤩💖🙏🏻🌸💫🧚🏻

[@weazytv]

Sugar babies will make you hallucinate

[@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134]

And invoke the Tooth Fairy

[@BumWatcher]

It's called real love. And women are too scared, unless it has money.

[@MARISRUBINS]

Nothing kills more people than sugar, I hope she knows that.

[@Lasergun74]

Wrong, it’s not sugar, it might be excess sugar consumption, but not sugar itself. Blame the bad habit of eating too much, not the healthy reasonable enjoyment of one of the most important nutrients.

[@Homesweethome2186]

Goood🤩🤩

[@TennesseeJed]

👍

[@ScottPerryMagic]

Tricks are an illusion but cakes are magic, huh? Well that coin behind your ear is real and now I’m not giving it to you.

[@justjay926]

👏👏👍🌈🤗

[@jameswilling8131]

I think her mother might have accidentally dosed her with LSD

[@sawansolanki2229]

😂

[@astridhansen573]

Hahaha I was thinking the same 😂😂

[@kazakh2005]

Ты хорошая девушка

[@Gorjezzticles]

A diabetics worst nightmare 😂

[@kazakh2005]

Assel😃