RecipeMuncher

Have you read Kitchen Confidential by Tony Bourdain? He has one part in the book in which his master bread baker calls him in the morning after a bender with instructions to “feed the bitch!”. By which he means the sourdough starter, which is the secret to his amazing breads but which he unfortunately was too inebriated to look after at the moment. A sourdough starter is indeed the bread baker’s secret weapon and there are as many ways to cultivate one as there are starters o (...)