Lau­rel Kra­tochvi­la is an Amer­i­can-born writer and bak­er based in Berlin and trained in France. She runs the icon­ic Fine Bagels bak­ery and the nat­ur­al wine bar, Le Bal­to. Her first book, New Euro­pean Bak­ing, was a final­ist for a James Beard award in 2023.