I’ll admit it—I still fall down the YouTube rabbit hole of sourdough advice. Not proudly, not regularly… but often enough to justify calling it “research.”…
Posts published in “Sourdough History & Origins”
Here we look at where sourdough came from, how different cultures used it, and how bread was made long before commercial yeast existed.
If you have ever wondered why supermarket sandwich bread can be soft for a week, squish into a perfect little ball, and somehow survive being…
Throughout much of medieval Northern Europe, rye was far more than just another grain. It was the crop that stood between survival and starvation. In…
Modern sourdough bakers obsess over hydration percentages, fermentation curves, starter maturity, and flour protein levels. Yet long before anyone understood yeast, bacteria, or gluten, bakers…
Growing up in Germany, I ate rye sourdough bread almost daily without giving it much thought. It was simply “bread.” Dense, dark, flavorful, and often…
Sourdough isn’t trendy. It just looks that way right now. In reality, it’s one of the oldest food technologies humanity ever stumbled into—right up there…