Jeffrey Hamelman is one of the very few Certified MasterBakers in the United States. He is the bakery director at the KingArthur Flour Company and teaches professional-level classes at KingArthur's Baking Education Center. He has taught in baking andpastry schools around the world and is the 2005 recipient of theGolden Baguette Award, the highest individual honor bestowed by theBread Bakers Guild of America. Chiho Kaneko is a fine artist whose work has beenexhibited in both the United States and Japan. She also works as atranslator and interpreter. She is a native of Japan with abackground in landscape architecture, agronomy, and art.