Kristina Cho

Kristina Cho is a James Beard Award winning cookbook author, food blogger, and content creator. Her first cookbook, Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries, won two James Beard awards. She also runs the popular food blog and Instagram page, Eat Cho Food.

Early life Cho was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Wai Tai and Wanda Cho. She has a brother named Tyler. Her grandparents immigrated from Hong Kong in the late 1960s and began working in restaurants.

Career In college, Cho majored in architecture at the University of Cincinnati she moved to San Francisco after getting an architecture internship, but found the work to be unfulfilling. Shortly after Cho quit, she received an email from her literary agent suggesting that she write a book. The book is one of the first modern English language cookbooks to cover Chinese baking. As Cho was developing the book, she found a distinct lack of books or articles around Chinese bakery culture and recipes, which inspired her to provide holistic coverage of these bakeries.

The New York Times and The New Yorker named Cho's book as one of the top 10 cookbooks of 2021. It was nominated for a 2025 James Beard Award in the U.S. Foodways category.