Jim Lahey

Jim Lahey studied sculpture before learning the art of bread baking in Italy. In New York City, he opened the Sullivan Street Bakery in 1994; and Co., a pizza restaurant, in 2009. Mr. Lahey and his businesses have been featured in Vogue, Saveur, and the New York Times, and he has appeared on the “Martha Stewart Show” and NBC’s “Today Show.” His innovative no-knead bread recipe, first published in an article by Mark Bittman in the New York Times in 2006, became the basis of Mr. Lahey’s cookbook My Bread, a Gourmet Cookbook Club selection.