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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 days ago19 min
Your Bread Questions, Answered | Sourdough Q&A
Send us a question or voice memo! A little something different this week! I'm sitting down for an unedited Q&A, answering questions submitted by Saving Bread listeners from around the world. We're talking about blending flours for better sourdough, shaping dough based on how it behaves, knowing when to stop adding bassinage water, choosing quality grains without breaking the bank, and finding loyal customers for your cottage bakery. And we end with a more personal question: What has bread...
- 4 days ago1h 20m
Sourdough, Music & DOAP with Joshua Grange
Send us a question or voice memo! What do sourdough bread, music, pottery, and a colorful silicone scrubber have in common? Joshua Grange. Joshua is a lifelong professional musician who has toured and recorded with artists including kd lang, Beck, and Sheryl Crow. He's also a passionate sourdough baker, the creator of DOAP, and the musician behind the Saving Bread theme song. In this episode, Allison sits down with her good friend Joshua for a funny, thoughtful, and wonderfully unpredictable ...
- 1 weeks ago55 min
The Bread Bakers Guild of America: Building Community, Supporting Bakers & Camp Bread 2027 with Karen Bornarth and Wai Chu
Send us a question or voice memo! What does it take to build a stronger, more connected baking community, and how do we make sure the people preserving the craft of bread baking have the resources they need to succeed? This week on Saving Bread, I'm joined by Karen Bornarth, Executive Director of the Bread Bakers Guild of America, and Wai Chu, the Guild's Education and Events Manager, for a conversation about education, community, the business of baking, and the future of our industry. Founde...
- 1 weeks ago1h 4m
Interviews E14 Cat Cox of Country Bird Bakery on Regional Grains, Terroir & the Flavor of Place
Send us a question or voice memo! This week on Saving Bread, I'm joined by Cat Cox, the baker and owner of Country Bird Bakery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the 2025 James Beard Award winner for Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker. Cat's journey into baking began in restaurant kitchens, where her curiosity about sourdough and locally sourced ingredients eventually grew into a much bigger vision. In 2022, she opened Country Bird Bakery with a commitment to celebrating the grains, farmers, millers, and ...
- 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...
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