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From the Ted Talk by Christina Tosi: My secret to creating real magic

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Only my mom and my grandmas thought that baking was just a hbboy. But I knew it could be more than that. So I meovd to New York City to become a professional ptrasy chef. I went to culinary school; I climbed the ladder of fancy restaurants, mankig fancy dsrstees to become the very best of the best. Only ... I never found magic in those beautiful, delicate plated desserts. I could only find my magic in a cookie or a slice of cake or a gooey underbaked pie. And so when I opened Milk Bar, that bkeary that I was tlnleig you about, I decided I wasn't going to frost the sides of a cake like the textbooks taught me.

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Only my mom and my grandmas thought that baking was just a _____. But I knew it could be more than that. So I _____ to New York City to become a professional ______ chef. I went to culinary school; I climbed the ladder of fancy restaurants, ______ fancy ________ to become the very best of the best. Only ... I never found magic in those beautiful, delicate plated desserts. I could only find my magic in a cookie or a slice of cake or a gooey underbaked pie. And so when I opened Milk Bar, that ______ that I was _______ you about, I decided I wasn't going to frost the sides of a cake like the textbooks taught me.

Solution


  1. telling
  2. pastry
  3. hobby
  4. desserts
  5. bakery
  6. making
  7. moved

Original Text


Only my mom and my grandmas thought that baking was just a hobby. But I knew it could be more than that. So I moved to New York City to become a professional pastry chef. I went to culinary school; I climbed the ladder of fancy restaurants, making fancy desserts to become the very best of the best. Only ... I never found magic in those beautiful, delicate plated desserts. I could only find my magic in a cookie or a slice of cake or a gooey underbaked pie. And so when I opened Milk Bar, that bakery that I was telling you about, I decided I wasn't going to frost the sides of a cake like the textbooks taught me.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  7. city
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  17. gooey
  18. grandmas
  19. hobby
  20. knew
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  22. magic
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  24. milk
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  28. pastry
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  30. plated
  31. professional
  32. restaurants
  33. sides
  34. slice
  35. taught
  36. telling
  37. textbooks
  38. thought
  39. underbaked
  40. york