There’s something grounding about creating your own sourdough starter from nothing more than whole wheat flour and water. It’s the kind of slow, patient process that our great-grandparents practiced ...

Those of you who’ve never had a real sourdough have never had real bread. Good food fights back a little when you eat it, and a proper sourdough, with its crispy crust and tangy center, certainly fits ...

For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground up.

Sourdough bread is made with a live culture of flour and water, often called a starter. Unlike breads made with commercial yeast, sourdough relies on naturally occurring wild yeasts and bacteria.