Joanne Chang

Joanne Chang (born in Houston, Texas) is an American chef and restaurateur. She is the owner of Flour Bakery in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a James Beard Foundation Award winner for Outstanding Baker, 2016.

Early life and education Chang's parents were immigrants who met while studying in Houston. As a child, she grew up in Oklahoma and Texas After graduating as valedictorian of her high school class, Chang attended Harvard University, where she studied astrophysics before switching to applied mathematics. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and economics in 1991.

Career After graduation, Chang worked as a management consultant at the Monitor Group in Cambridge. She applied for work as a chef,

Chang began her professional cooking career as a garde-manger cook at Boston's Biba restaurant, followed by stints as the pastry cook at Bentonwood Bakery in Newton, and in 1995, the pastry chef at Rialto restaurant in Cambridge. In 1997, she began working at the cake department of Payard Patisserie in New York City. Chang stated she worked from "4 a.m. to midnight, six days a week". In 2007 she won an episode of Beat Bobby Flay with her recipe for sticky buns. In 2021 she was a judge on Baking Impossible, a cooking competition show on Netflix.

She has taught cooking classes. She contributed to the cookbook Rebel Girls Make Dessert (2025).

Restaurants Chang opened her first Flour Bakery in Boston's South End in 2000.

In 2007, Chang and her husband, Christopher Myers, opened Myers + Chang, an Asian fusion restaurant in Boston's South End. She had been a finalist for an award in five previous years.

Cookbooks Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe (2010) Baking with Less Sugar: Recipes for Dessert using Natural Sweeteners and Little-to-No White Sugar (2015) Myers+Chang at Home (2017) Pastry Love: A Baker's Journal of Favorite Recipes (2019)

Personal life Chang met her husband Christopher Myers in 1995 while they worked together at Rialto. The couple married in 2007.