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The No-Knead Bread Duo Answers Your Baking Questions

Jim Lahey and Mark tackle everything you’re trying to figure out about bread and pizza.

Published June 9, 2020

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Jim Lahey. Photo: Instagram/@sullivanstreetbakery

Bread baking was transformed for the average home baker in 2006 when Mark Bittman wrote about Sullivan Street Bakery founder Jim Lahey’s no-knead bread in The New York Times after he learned about Lahey’s super-minimalist method.

“The method is surprisingly simple,” Lahey wrote in an email to Bittman. “I think a 4-year-old could master it — and the results are fantastic.”

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