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Saving Bread explores sourdough, grain, fermentation, craftsmanship, and the people keeping real bread alive. Join baker and educator Allison White for practical lessons and thoughtful conversations with bakers, millers, farmers, oven makers, and others shaping the future of bread.
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- 2 weeks ago52 min
Lessons E09 Josh Fairbanks on Scalds, Mixing & Learning to Trust Your Dough
Send us a question or voice memo! My dear friend, mentor, and fellow baker Josh Fairbanks returns to Saving Bread for an honest, completely unedited conversation about scalds, dough development, and the art of becoming a more intuitive baker. We begin by answering listener-submitted questions about scalds: what they are, how they differ from porridges, and why they can be such a valuable tool for incorporating flavorful grains like rye, einkorn, and buckwheat into bread. We discuss hydratio...
- 3 weeks ago1h 3m
Interviews E13 Laila O'boyle of The Early Rise on Bread, Community & West Coast Breadfest
Send us a question or voice memo! What happens when you take a community that's grown online and bring everyone together in person? This week on Saving Bread, Allison sits down with her longtime friend Laila, the baker and educator behind The Early Rise and founder of West Coast Breadfest. After attending Asheville Breadfest, Laila was inspired to create something similar for the West Coast. What followed was an enormous undertaking that brought together bakers, educators, millers, and bread ...
- Oct 7, 202658 min
Interviews E12 Building Trust, Finding Your Voice & Baking with Jill Nguyen of Capitol Jill Baking
Send us a question or voice memo! Jill Nguyen didn’t grow up baking. In fact, she didn’t start until 2020. What began as a pandemic bread obsession eventually became Capitol Jill Baking, her Washington, DC microbakery known for naturally leavened breads, inventive pastries, and colorful, highly personal cakes. In this episode, Jill and I talk about how she built a baking style that feels unmistakably her own. We get into how she develops new products, why she often starts with a feeling rat...
- Sep 30, 20261h 21m
Interviews E11 Jon + Amanda of Proof Bread - From the Garage to Five Bakeries
Send us a question or voice memo! This week on Saving Bread, Allison sits down with Jon and Amanda of Proof Bread in Arizona. Proof began in 2017 with hand-mixed dough, one farmers market, a few wholesale accounts, and a home bakery. Today, Proof has grown to five locations, nearly 100 employees, an in-house milling program, relationships with local grain producers, and an entirely sourdough menu. Jon and Amanda share what that growth has actually looked like behind the scenes, including hi...
- Sep 25, 202634 min
Rabbit Hole E03: The $60 Rye Loaf, Mexico City, Napa & What Bread Is Worth
Send us a question or voice memo! Leah is back for another Rabbit Hole episode, and this time we’re talking about what we’ve been eating, where we’ve been traveling, and the loaf everyone in the bread world seems to have an opinion about. Leah shares her visit to Moulin in Napa, where whole grains and freshly milled flour are worked into breads and pastries. Allison takes us through her trip to Mexico City and Panadería Rosetta, including the guava roll, pan de elote, whole wheat croissants, ...
- Sep 23, 202643 min
Lessons E08 The pH of Sourdough | Microbiology, Fermentation & Whole Grain
Send us a question or voice memo! pH is one of the topics I’m asked about most often, but the number on a meter is only one part of understanding fermentation. In Lessons E08 of Saving Bread, I break down what is happening inside a sourdough culture and explain how I use pH in my own baking and production. We talk about the relationship between yeast and lactic acid bacteria, the enzymes naturally present in flour, how starch becomes available to microorganisms during fermentation, why organi...
- Sep 16, 202650 min
Interviews E10 Anujay Krishna - High Hydration Sourdough, Open Crumb and Reading the Dough
Send us a question or voice memo! What does it take to build an incredibly open, delicate sourdough crumb when you are working with different flour, a different climate, and different equipment than the bakers who originally inspired you? This week on Saving Bread, I am joined by Anujay Krishna, a baker in Lucknow, India, whose beautifully open, lacy country loaves have made him one of the most requested guests on the podcast. Anujay did not grow up eating this style of bread. His early relat...
- Sep 11, 202649 min
Lessons E11 - Whole Grain Chat with Baylin Speidel
Send us a question or voice memo! How do you choose the right whole grain flour when the names on the bag start to feel overwhelming? Baylin Speidel, head baker at Chimacum Valley Grainery, returns to Saving Bread for a practical conversation about grain selection, flour functionality, extraction rates and scalds. We break down hard red, hard white and soft wheat, along with rye, spelt, buckwheat and einkorn. We talk about which grains provide structure, which may work better in cookies, scal...
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