Finding Connection in Sourdough Bread

Sharing sourdough starter, the live culture at the heart of every loaf, can be an act of care and creating community

A freshly baked loaf of sourdough, from a starter nurtured in your own kitchen, is nourishment in more ways than one. Emilie Raffa

When I think of a food that most frequently populates or defines my life, it is bread. The thread of my life can be traced by the bread in it.

There are the peanut butter and honey sandwiches my mom used to pack into little Ziploc bags for me and my siblings to take to the community pool. We would unwrap them with shriveled fingers, cuddled up onto oversized towels by the far fence in the shade.