The Best Reading to Deepen Your Relationship to Sourdough
The best guidance I’ve found to help you with your sourdough journey, as it has helped me on mine
When I first started writing about keeping a sourdough starter by asking a panel of global bakers for their tips, I couldn’t imagine this particular future. Most of the world is in isolation, flour is a precious and rare commodity, and sourdough starters have become such a popular hobby that there’s been backlash and backlash to the backlash and memes and jokes and… maybe no one even cares that much about bread anymore.
What I did envision was having a hands-on training session for my first loaf of bread — following some fruitful discard experiments — with my friend Diego, of Panoteca San Miguel, so that I could photograph and recount it for readers, combining his expertise with my inexperience to provide useful insight into making one’s first sourdough loaf.
That cannot happen now, because of isolation and social distancing and all that. But I have been reading everyone…
