On this episode of the Sourdough Podcast, Adam Pagor shares his “hard and fast” journey into sourdough. Starting in 2013 with a baking class, he eventually made the leap to a ROFCO oven and started a micro-bakery in his London home. Adam shares how his family and growing baking community inspired him to work toward his dream of becoming a baker and the experiences that encouraged him to open his own bakery, Grain and Hearth, in April of 2019.

On this episode, Apollonia Poilâne joins me share some secrets from her world-famous Parisian bakery and to talk about her first English language cookbook. She tells us how she was prepared for the role she found herself taking on, unexpectedly at the age of 18, and the personal mark she’s made on her family’s business in her 17 years as CEO.

On this episode we return to our theme of the Cottage Baker with my guest Justin Gomez. Justin talks about his career journey and early bread influences that encouraged him to pursue baking full time. He explains the family ties and values behind the name Humble Bakehouse and shares his valuable experiences and insights on starting and growing a cottage bakery in his community of Martinez, California.

On this episode baker and author Daniel Leader joins me to talk about his new book Living Bread. We discuss his early bread education through the “backdoor school of baking” and the founding of his bakery, Bread Alone, in 1983. He shares his thoughts and experiences gained from nearly 40 years of baking and through his friendships with bakers from around the world and he tells us why he thinks we are just at the beginning of the local grain economy movement, here in America, and what it means...

To kick off this season’s special focus on the Cottage Baker I’m very excited to have Lisa Clayton the baker behind the Instagram sensation Sourdough Nouveau and owner of the Beach Cottage Bakery. Lisa shares what inspired her to discover sourdough and the background of her wildly popular sourdough art. She tells us about the challenges and triumphs she’s experienced in opening her own cottage bakery and gives advice and inspiration to those considering pursuing their own sourdough dreams.

As a special prelude to the next season of the Podcast, I wanted to introduce the musician responsible to giving The Sourdough Podcast it's soundtrack as he prepares to release his first EP on Sept 18th. I think you’ll really enjoy hearing how he imagined the sound of the Podcast, his recent move to California, and his inspiration for writing his music. 

On this season one finale episode of The Sourdough Podcast, baker, educator, and author, Sarah Owens joins me for my first in-home interview. Sarah shares how her own unique sourdough journey emerged from the confluence of her Tennessee upbringing, careers as both a ceramic artist and horticulturalist, and battles with her personal health. We discuss her third, soon to be released, cookbook, Heirloom, as well as her James Beard award winning book Sourdough. And you won’t want to miss the big...

On this episode director, photographer, Marie C. tells us how her relationship with her sourdough starter became the inspiration for her award winning web-series My Life in Sourdough. We talk about the evolution of bread culture in the US and her native France. And she share her secret for traveling internationally with your sourdough starter.

Bryan Ford, aka, Artisan Bryan tells us about his journey from accountant to baker. He shares how realizing his dream of becoming baker has lead him to rediscover his Honduran heritage. He talks about his successes and failures and the inspiration he draws from his family and community as he strives to help people make delicious bread while staying in touch with his roots.

On this episode, Emily Buehler, author of Bread Science: The Chemistry and Craft of Making Bread, joins us to help unravel the mysteries of naturally fermented bread. She shares her journey from scientist to baker to becoming an author and publisher, writing and working with renowned bakers like Peter Reinhart and Francisco Migoya. She helps explain why enzymes are the unsung heroes of fermentation, addresses some common misconceptions surrounding sourdough, and answers listener questions on...

On this episode, Rose Lawrence, baker, chef, and owner of Red Bread, joins me from her home in Los Angeles. Rose reflects on her beginnings as a Cottage Food baker in Venice, California and how the artisan bread movement has changed since the passage of the California Homemade Food Act (a law which she played an active role in bringing about). She gives advice and resources for home bakers looking to take the leap to becoming a cottage food operator and shares her fermentation mantra for...

Daniel Larsson (@danlarn) joins me from his home in Falkenberg, Sweden. We talk about the inspiration that led him to start baking sourdough just three short years ago and the role social media has played in his journey, and in the resurgence of interest in sourdough in recent years. Dan shares his vision for his own bakery and for the future of sourdough and his mission to inspire more natural, beautiful and sustainable bread.

This episode Jim Challenger guests on the podcast and talks with me about his journey into sourdough and what prompted him to design the soon to be released The Challenger Bread Pan. We discuss his entrepreneurial background and how his interactions with the sourdough Instagram community inspired him to build a baking device made specifically for the home sourdough baker. Jim shares how his design and testing process were fundamentally shaped by input from baking friends from around the...

In this largely unedited recording, I invite you to sit down with baker and author Bonnie Ohara of Alchemy Bread, and I, in the dining room of her home and cottage bakery in Modesto, California. In between the pitter patter of little feet and a couple late customers, we had a deeply honest and heartfelt conversation about her hard, self-taught journey from checking out bread books at the library to now having her own book resting on the same shelves. She tells us how a debilitating injury...

Baker, educator, entrepreneur, Don Guerra, recalls the journey he took to becoming the owner of Barrio Bread in Tucson, Arizona. He talks about his mission to spread the Community Supported Bakery business model around the globe, and tells us why supporting the local grain economy is so important to his work.

Author and blogger Emilie Raffa shares with us the unexpected inspiration for her book Artisan Sourdough Made Simple. She tells us how she got started on her own sourdough journey and answers some sourdough Frequently Asked Questions.

Maurizio Leo and I discuss his thoughts on the artisan sourdough movement. He explains how he got started baking sourdough, the evolution of his blog, and his relationship with the Instagram and online sourdough communities. He shares the secret to getting that perfect sourdough flavor and answers some of the most common sourdough questions he receives.

Emma Zimmerman tells us how she and her father grew their small milling operation from the back of one of Chris Bianco’s restaurants, into a nationally distributed heritage grain and flour brand. We discuss their roots to the historic Hayden Flour Mill in Tempe, Arizona and what it takes to produce the same high quality stone milled heritage grain products today. She talks about the benefits and challenges of baking with stone milled flour and why flavor is at the core of everything they...

I sat down with Crystal White in her newly opened bakery in San Diego, Ca - Wayfarer Bread & Pastry. We discussed how she turned her childhood dream of becoming a baker into reality and her vision for the future of bread in California, and beyond. Crystal also shares her advice for new sourdough bakers and anyone who might aspire to open their own shop someday.

Hi this is Mike Hilburn. If you are new to sourdough, perhaps in the middle of creating your first starter, reading books and blogs, practicing your scoring technique, still pulling giant sourdough pancakes from your oven, but loving every minute of your new found passion... If you are casual microbiology nerd, food history geek... If you are beginning baker , an Intragram baker, a experienced home baker, or an actual verified professional baker, If you have scoured youtube, netflix, web...