Joanne Chang
| Joanne Chang | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joanne Chang 1971 (age 54–55) Houston, Texas, U.S |
| 🏫 Education | Harvard University (AB) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Christopher Myers (m. 2007) |
Joanne Chang (born in Houston, Texas) is an American chef and restaurant owner. She is the owner of Flour Bakery[1] 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.[2] She was born in Houston circa 1971.[3] As a child, she grew up in Oklahoma and Texas[2] and enjoyed cooking and baking.[4] 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.[2][5][6][7]
Early career
After graduation, Chang worked as a management consultant at the Monitor Group in Cambridge.[2] While working at the company, she created a business plan for a company called Joanne's Kitchen and prepared cakes and cookies for her co-workers.[2] After two years of working there, Chang realized that consulting was not the best career for her.[8] She applied for work as a chef,[2] despite having limited culinary experience.[9]
Chang began her professional cooking career as a garde-manger cook at Boston's Biba restaurant,[2] followed by stints as the pastry cook at Bentonwood Bakery in Newton, and in 1995, the pastry chef at Rialto restaurant in Cambridge.[5] In 1997, she began working at the cake department of Payard Patisserie in New York City.[10][11] Chang stated she worked from "4 a.m. to midnight, six days a week".[6] Returning to Boston a year later with plans to open a pastry shop, she worked as a pastry chef at Mistral until the summer of 2000.[12]
She contributed to the cookbook Rebel Girls Make Dessert (2025).[13]
Restaurants
Flour Bakery has 9 locations in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.[14]
In 2007, Chang and her husband, Christopher Myers, opened Myers + Chang, an Asian fusion restaurant in Boston's South End.[15]
Awards
James Beard Foundation Awards
2016 Outstanding Baker[16]
Cookbooks
- Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe[17]
- Flour Too: Indispensable Recipes for the Café's Most Loved Sweets & Savories[18]
- Baking with Less Sugar: Recipes for Dessert using Natural Sweeteners and Little-to-No White Sugar[19]
- Myers+Chang at Home[20]
Personal life
Chang met her husband Christopher Myers in 1995 while they worked together at Rialto.[8] The couple married in 2007.[2]
References
- ↑ "Kitchen Tour: Joanne Chang's Casual Loft Kitchen". The Kitchn. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "Joanne Chang won't rest until everything is perfect". The Boston Globe. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
- ↑ "Q&A: Joanne Chang of Boston's Flour Bakery". Honolulu. January 19, 2012. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
- ↑ "Pastry Chef Joanne Chang has great Sticky Buns". Asiance Magazine. Retrieved May 3, 2016.[dead link]
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Joanne Chang". flourbakery.com. Retrieved May 3, 2016.[dead link]
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Joanne Chang, Owner of Flour Bakery, Shares Culinary Expertise". thecrimson.com. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
- ↑ Gottselig, Leona (23 January 2025). "The Art of Baking with Flour Bakery Founder Joanne Chang". The Tech. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Lincoln, Courtney (2018-11-16). "An Interview with Author & Restauranteur, Joanne Chang". Fresh New England. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ "Chef Joanne Chang: Making Life Sweeter". Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "WGBH Food: Neighborhood Kitchens: Meet Myers + Chang and Flour Bakery Chef Joanne Chang". wgbh.org. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Joanne Chang | Lovin' Spoonfuls". Lovin' Spoonfuls. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Team Member Archive". Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Flynn, Rachel; Rella, Emily (20 May 2025). "Food Network's Molly Yeh and Others Team Up with the Rebel Girls to Empower Young Chefs in Rebel Girls Make Dessert Cookbook (Exclusive)". People.com. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
- ↑ "about us". flour bakery. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
Flour Bakery now has nine locations in Boston + Cambridge.
- ↑ "About". Myers + Chang. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ↑ Cain, Jacqueline (May 2, 2016). "Joanne Chang Named Outstanding Baker by the James Beard Foundation". Boston.
- ↑ Joanne Chang (January 14, 2011). "Joanne Chang". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
- ↑ "Flour, Too: Indispensable Recipes for the Cafe's Most Loved Sweets & Savories | Flour Bakery". www.flourbakery.com. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Joanne Chang | Flour Bakery". www.flourbakery.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2016. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Myers + Chang". www.myersandchang.com. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
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