Nicola Lamb
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Nicola Lamb is a British pastry chef and cookery book author.
Lamb trained with Dominique Ansel, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Little Bread Pedlar.[1]
In May 2024, Ebury Press published Sift: The Elements of Great Baking. Later in 2024, an Americanized version was published in the US and Canada.[2] In November 2024, it was The Times and Sunday Times food book of the year.[3] Eater.com called it "a Deep, Delicious Dive Into the How and Why of Baking".[1]
Lamb runs "Kitchen Projects", a baking newsletter.[4]
Lamb's recipes and writing have been featured in Serious Eats, The Guardian, Olive, Vogue Magazine, and ES Magazine. She continues to host sell-out pastry parties with her pop-up bakery, lark! and has collaborated with chefs including Verena Lochmuller of Ottolenghi Test Kitchen, Toklas Bakery, Farro, Lannan, Soft & Swirly, and Kossoffs.
In 2025, Lamb’s debut book Sift: The Elements of Great Baking was awarded the James Beard Foundation Book Award in the Baking and Desserts category.[5]