Head to Orange County, California, for the Best Sourdough in the Universe. And It’s Purple

The lovely color is only one thing that sets these loaves of sourdough apart from the rest.

The blue corn masa sourdough bread with a side of beef tallow butter at Le Hut Dinette restaurant in Santa Ana. The bread is made by 61 Hundred Bread. Jenn Harris/The Los Angeles Times/TNS

By Jenn Harris Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES—Did you see the purple loaves of sourdough that were all over social media a few years ago? I missed them. In fact, I’m five years late to trying Karlo Evaristo’s heirloom blue corn masa sourdough bread, and I only discovered it by accident. Now, I can think of little else.