Just you, that starter, and a recipe from your bread-obsessed neighbor. Welcome to the sourdough lifestyle. Over time, this cozy hobby can turn any budding baker into a budding chemist.

Truth is, I like sourdough bread when someone else makes it — say, the corner French bakery. It takes dedication to nurse the slurry of flour and water into a mature, sour, puddinglike glop that ...

Sourdough bread is made using a starter. A sourdough starter is created through combining flour and water. It takes several days to establish, but can be used for potentially hundreds of years.

But as Kratochvila points out in her book “New European Baking,” which was published last fall and includes dozens of sourdough bread and pastry recipes, a wave of bakers, working in cities ...

While bread-making usually doesn’t require technology, the Breadwinner shows that adding in some tech can make it lot easier to live your life while you tend to your starter.

A jar of this fresh-tasting smoked mackerel pâté is great to serve as a starter or to pack for a picnic. It's unbelievably easy to whizz up.

When millions of people went into lockdown during the pandemic, they went in search of new at-home hobbies to help cure their boredom. Among them was making sourdough bread. In addition to being ...

Baking sourdough bread has a long history in America, but during the pandemic lockdowns it saw a resurgence in popularity. Baking sourdough begins with a sourdough starter.