Getting Started with Sourdough: From Flour to Levain to One Great Loaf

by Chad Robertson, Jennifer Latham Narrated by Chad Robertson, Jennifer Latham

Overview

Learn the basics of wild yeast bread baking in a mini master class from Chad Robertson, world-renowned inventor of Tartine bread, and Tartine head baker Jennifer Latham
 
If you've always been intrigued by the idea of baking beautiful, post-worthy loaves of bread from your own sourdough starter but have found the process confusing or intimidating, this is your easy entry into producing incredible loaves at home. Chad Robertson and Jennifer Latham have taught legions of professional bakers to bake bread with a deeply flavorful crust and a custardy crumb. Now they've simplified those lessons to talk you through their process. In just a few hours of listening, you'll learn:
 
¿ how and why natural yeast makes the most delicious, healthy, and versatile bread
¿ what to know about flour (and the farmers and millers who produce it)
¿ how to establish and tend to your starter
¿ how to use your starter to reliably bake a spectacular rustic loaf at home from just four ingredients: natural leaven, flour, water, and salt

Editorial Reviews

FEBRUARY 2021 - AudioFile

If you’re looking to rise to the challenge of creating naturally leavened bread, these two able companions will instruct, entertain, and accompany you. Self-confessed bread nerds Chad Robertson, cofounder of the esteemed bakery Tartine, and Jennifer Latham, Tartine’s head bread baker, lead listeners through the process of making Tartine’s exceptional country loaf. After sharing their personal bread epiphanies and the virtues of small-batch millers’ different grains, they illuminate the bread “formula,” complete with explanations, charming verbal illustrations (“stretch the dough in from where the ears might be”), and definitions of unfamiliar terms. The production encourages listeners to stop, go, and do, then return for more instruction. They’re teachers with contrasting styles: Chad’s is reserved but passionate; Jennifer’s is cheerfully casual, outgoing, and overtly encouraging. J.C.G. 2021 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177056579
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	08/18/2020
Series:	A Random House Audiobook Original
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	792,899

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