2016 James Beard Award Winner (Baking &
Desserts) 101 recipes for baking with whole and sprouted grains, making the most of the seasonal harvest, and healing the body through naturally fermented food Sarah Owens spent years baking conventional baked goods, only to slowly realize she had developed a crippling inability to digest or tolerate their ingredients.
Laced with botanical and cultural notes on grains, fruits and vegetables, herbs, and even weeds, Sourdough celebrates seasonal abundance alongside the timeless craft of artisan baking..
Anecdotes from the garden will delight naturalists and baked-goods lovers among us.
Sarah is a botanist and gardener as well as a baker--her original recipes are accented with brief natural history notes of the highlighted plants and ingredients used therein.
Moreover, Sarah uses home-grown Sourdough starter in dozens of baked goods, including cookies, cakes, scones, flatbreads, tarts, and more--well beyond bread.
In Sourdough, Sarah demystifies keeping a Sourdough culture, which is an extended fermentation process that allows for maximum flavor and easy digestion, showing us just how simple it can be to create a healthy starter from scratch.
Sourdough and other fermented foods are making a comeback because of their rich depth of flavor and proven health benefits.
Soon after, her artisan small-batch bakery, BK17, was launched, and with that, a new way to savor and share nutritious Sourdough breads and treats with her Brooklyn community.
Thus Sarah started experimenting with Sourdough leavening, which almost immediately began to heal her gut and inspire her anew in the kitchen.
Unable to enjoy many of her most favorite foods, she knew she must find a health-sustaining alternative. 2016 James Beard Award Winner (Baking &
Desserts) 101 recipes for baking with whole and sprouted grains, making the most of the seasonal harvest, and healing the body through naturally fermented food Sarah Owens spent years baking conventional baked goods, only to slowly realize she had developed a crippling inability to digest or tolerate their ingredients
