Sourdough Stories

Tyler Cartner
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What is your relationship to your starter?

@nessiesbakery on Instagram, talks about her intimate relationship to her sourdough starter.

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Should I learn how to make sourdough bread? Entry #1

Should I learn how to make sourdough bread? Entry #1

Blog Entry #1, written by Bryan Jimenez Instagram: @foodiebryan We asked the sourdough community on Instagram to tell their sourdough stories. We found all of them moving and beautiful. Enjoy reading about your fellow sourdough friends. Please feel free to leave comments. My sourdough journey started when I traded some of my yeasted buns with a friend in town. During that time I had been working from home and felt lost as “working from home” was never something that I had expected to do. I needed something to help me structure my day, something that would provide me a “schedule”. I wasn’t entirely...

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Should I learn how to make sourdough bread? Entry #2

Should I learn how to make sourdough bread? Entry #2

Blog Entry #2, written by Shiyun Huang Instagram: @huangshiyun44   We asked the sourdough community on Instagram to tell their sourdough stories. We found all of them moving and beautiful. Enjoy reading about your fellow sourdough friends. Please feel free to leave comments. As an Asian I know a lot of my friends and family don't enjoy the sourness and hard crust of sourdough country loaf. They prefer the Asian style breads which are usually soft, sweet and fluffy. One time when I was shopping with them, they immediately put down the bread when seeing, "sourdough," on the package. But I have learned that...

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Should I learn how to make sourdough bread? Entry #3

Should I learn how to make sourdough bread? Entry #3

Blog Entry #3, written by Yana Bacheva Instagram: @yanabacheva We asked the sourdough community on Instagram to tell their sourdough stories. We found all of them moving and beautiful. Enjoy reading about your fellow sourdough friends. Please feel free to leave comments.            Should I start baking sourdough bread? That’s the question Tyler asked. I wasn’t going to write anything, forget about typing it and sending it. I am not a writer, English is my second language and I barely get any time in the day to finish a thought or answer a text. I have a...

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