Jeff Hertzberg, co-author of ARTISAN BREAD IN FIVE MINUTES A DAY and HEALTHY BREAD IN FIVE MINUTES A DAY, is a physician with 20 years of experience in health care as a practitioner, consultant and faculty member at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is also an ardent amateur baker. Hertzberg developed a love of great bread while growing up in New York City’s ethnic patchwork of the 1960s and 70s, and he refined this love with extensive travel throughout France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Britain and Morocco. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and two daughters.