![]() The olive oil is not imaginary, and it is very delicious with a slice of sourdough. He is also the co-proprietor of a California extra virgin olive oil producer, Fat Gold. DO SOURDOUGH Slow bread for busy lives by Andrew Whitley, signed by the author The best-selling DO book from Andrew Whitley was first published in May 2014. Robin Sloan is the author of the novels Sourdough and Mr. One last note of advice: If you want your sourdough starter to sing, Craig, you’ve got to feed it some tunes. Obvious, even.īut, if your first loaf of sourdough bread doesn’t look like the ones you see on Instagram, don’t despair: I’ve got the book for you. ![]() Now that starters are bubbling in so many more kitchens around the world, even skulking on streetcorners, perhaps it feels more reasonable. When the book was first published, that earned some raised eyebrows. Sourdough is, I believe, the first novel to feature a possibly-sentient sourdough starter as a supporting character. A starter with a secret origin and strange powers.Ī starter that could even-here’s the crux of it-compensate for a baker’s lack of skill. ![]() ![]() There was something I wanted from the starter, something I dreamed about and never achieved, not in this real world so, I imagined and exaggerated and distorted and recombined to invent a starter of my own: not classic sourdough, but something more versatile, more alien. Why did a failed sourdough baker write a novel about a magical sourdough starter? The answer is right there in the question. ![]()
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