Nicola Lamb

{{Short description|British pastry chef and author}}

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{{Use British English|date= December 2024}}

Nicola Lamb is a British pastry chef and cookery book author.

Lamb trained with Dominique Ansel, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Little Bread Pedlar.{{Cite web |last=Manning |first=Ivy |date=2024-11-20 |title='Sift' Is a Deep, Delicious Dive Into the How and Why of Baking |url=https://www.eater.com/24295593/sift-cookbook-nicola-lamb-review |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Eater |language=en}}

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.{{Cite web |last=Lamb |first=Nicola |date=2024-11-12 |title=SIFT is out now in North America! |url=https://kitchenprojects.substack.com/p/sift-is-out-now-in-north-america |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Kitchen Projects}} In November 2024, it was The Times and Sunday Times food book of the year.{{Cite web |last=Turnbull |first=Tony |date=2024-11-29 |title=The 10 best food and drink books of 2024 |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/best-cookbooks-food-books-2024-j3cz3982x |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=www.thetimes.com |language=en}} Eater.com called it "a Deep, Delicious Dive Into the How and Why of Baking".

Lamb runs "Kitchen Projects", a baking newsletter.{{Cite web |last=Everett |first=Thea |date=2024-06-18 |title=Baking don Nicola Lamb on biscuits, eating like a fruit fly and her favourite utensils |url=https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/baking-don-nicola-lamb-on-biscuits-eating-like-a-fruit-fly-and-her-favourite-utensils/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=delicious. magazine |language=en-GB}}