TUE NOV 19 / SIFT with author Nicola Lamb in conversation with Natasha Pickowicz

6p 

Join us for a very special evening as we celebrate an “informative, enriching, and delicious” (Yotam Ottolenghi!) guide to baking that combines easy-to-follow, science-based advice with 100 reliable recipes for both novices and more experienced bakers, from the renowned pastry chef behind the Kitchen Projects newsletter.

SIFT: The Elements of Great Baking from Nicola Lamb is bound to be a new best friend in your baking corner. Nicola will be joined in conversation by accomplished pastry chef, cookbook author, and friend of Arch Natasha Pickowicz. 

Expect a conversation with Nicola + Natasha, something we have baked up from the book, a Q + A with all of you, and a book signing. Books and beverages will be for sale on premises. Preorder and guarantee your book above.

ABOUT SIFT! ◢

Sift begins with the foundational ingredients that underpin great bakes—flour, sugar, eggs, fat—before delving into the techniques that bring recipes to life: texture, color, how things rise, and a technical overview. 100 tested, tried, and true recipes follow and are organized by difficulty and time commitment, ranging from easy 30-minute cakes to spectacular showstoppers you can devote a weekend to, including:

• Bake in an afternoon: Marble Cake with Chocolate Frosting, Lemon Curd Meringue Tarts with Blackberries, Miso Walnut Double-Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Bake in a day: Mango Shortcake with Candied Lime, Fancy Rhubarb Tart, Olive Oil Brie-oche with Roasted Grapes, Honey, and Thyme
• Bake in a weekend: 3-Day Focaccia; Pain au Chocolat; Classic Fruit Custard Danish

Gorgeous photos accompany every recipe and the infographic-style illustrations help home bakers easily grasp the hows and whys of baking so they can tackle any project with confidence.

NICOLA LAMB  ◤ is a pastry chef who trained in top New York and London bakeries, including Dominique Ansel, Ottolenghi, and Little Bread Pedlar. She is also a food writer and recipe developer whose work has been featured in The Guardian, Vogue, London Evening Standard and Olive magazine. She lives in London.

NATASHA PICKOWICZ  ◤ is a New York City-based chef and writer. She is a three-time James Beard Foundation Award finalist.

Much of her pastry work explores the relationship between baking and social justice, including ongoing collaborations with seminal New York City institutions like Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, God’s Love We Deliver, the Brigid Alliance, and Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, for whom she produced a massive city-wide bake sale, raising more than $150,000 between 2017 and 2019.

Currently, Pickowicz runs the pastry pop-up called Never Ending Taste, which has been held at NYC’s Superiority Burger, Brooklyn’s the Four Horsemen, the American-Vietnamese bakery Ba. n B., the Taiwanese tearoom T. Company, Los Angeles’s Kismet, and the legendary Chino Farm in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Pickowicz’s recipes and writing have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bon Appetit, Saveur, Food & Wine, New York magazine, Cherry Bombe, and many other publications.

We can't wait to see you! Email information@archestrat.us with questions. Unfortunately, we can’t give refunds, only exchanges. We do not give Covid refunds. Thanks for your understanding.