Sourdough Special

6 episodes

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User profile picepekilis

Sourdough bread has really caught the spirit of the times.


  • 1

    Sourdough Library

    The Atlas Obscura Podcast

    14:38 | May 5th, 2021

    1 recommendation

    Inside a living, breathing collection of sourdough starters in Belgium. Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sourdough-library

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    Prescient episode recorded in 2018, before the Covid sourdough boom. Archives are one of the first internal services that companies cut for cost control, so dude must have made one heck of a case for...Show More

  • 2

    Living Legacy

    Home Cooked

    25:11 | Apr 27th, 2020

    3 recommendations

    In 1898, during the Gold Rush, Ione Christensen’s grandfather brought to the Yukon a wad of sourdough starter, the essential ingredient in making generation after generation of delicious bread. Ione h...Show More

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    Meet Ione Christensen, Keeper of The Yukon Sourdough. It is 118, it is alive, and she calls it “him”. Christensen is also a Senator and was also the first female Mayor of Whitehorse and first female...Show More

  • 3

    The creator of the Xbox assembles a rag-tag team to extract ancient yeast from Egyptian pots and bake bread with it.

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    Terrific tale of Xbox inventor who pursues his twin hobbies in Egyptopology and bread-baking to try and bake an ancient bread. A really ancient bread. With, like, ancient Egyptian yeast. It’s so wo...Show More

  • 4

    Sourdough starters! Ancient yeasts! Why we need/knead dough! And why you don't need to buy a starter to start. Polymath, particle physicist, inventor of the Xbox, and truly delightful fermentation ner...Show More

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    By day, inventor of the Xbox, particle physicist and corporate CEO. By night, amateur Egyptologist who translates hieroglyphs for fun (and it turns out they really are fun). On Sundays he bakes bread...Show More

  • 5

    Sourdough

    Check the Pantry

    1:00:43 | Jan 19th, 2020

    On this week's Check the Pantry, Jeff Lockwood sits down with Fresh Catch Cafe's Harrison McHenry for a conversation about sourdough, from creating a starter to baking a loaf.

  • 6

    Bread

    The Curious History of Your Home

    42:35 | Sep 23rd, 2024

    1 recommendation

    The world’s oldest breadcrumbs are discovered in Jordan. Ryebread causes a devastating disease in medieval Germany. In 18th-century France, the rising price of flour sparks popular unrest. And a carbo...Show More

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