Taste the World!
After my first sourdough workshop (recap here), we refined the format based on participant feedback to create a compact, hands-on one-day class. Whether you have some experience or are new to sourdough, this workshop focuses on practical techniques—starter care, autolyse, hand-kneading, stretch & fold and shaping—so you leave confident to bake at home. What changed …
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Sourdough baking is a delightful art, but it can also be surprisingly fragile. Despite our best efforts, many bakers—beginners and experts alike—have experienced heartbreaking moments of losing their cherished starters. Whether it’s forgetfulness, mishandling, or unexpected circumstances, losing your sourdough can be emotionally taxing. In this post, I share personal stories, experiences from workshop participants, …
Traveling with sourdough might sound like a strange idea to some, but for me, it’s a beloved ritual. Wherever I go, I try to bring a piece of my kitchen with me—quite literally. Over the past few years, my sourdough starter has accompanied me on several journeys: to Madeira, where I spent two months working …
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Throughout my sourdough journey to “bake the world a better place”, I have learned a great deal from experienced bakers. Friends and colleagues have now asked me to teach them how to make sourdough bread in return. What an honor! I wondered how I might be able to best meet this demand. Initially, I focused …
From Idea to Reality: Building and Baking with a Wooden Oven If you’ve ever baked in a wooden oven, you’ll know it’s a completely different experience! It’s not just the smokier, more rustic flavor of the oven bake; it’s also the entire process – from lighting the fire to taking out freshly baked goods. That’s …
Traveling through the Alentejo region of Portugal feels like stepping into a different world. One where the pace of life slows down, and the landscape tells the story of centuries of human interaction with nature. The rolling plains are dotted with cork trees, their bark harvested every few years in a practice that has shaped …
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When I first heard about Verena, the passionate baker behind Brotgeschichten in Freinsheim, it was a television show. It was highlighting her journey and love for traditional bread-making. Her dedication to the craft immediately caught my attention. So, when I found out that Verena offered workshops, I did not think a lot about – I …
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In October 2023 I had the chance to visit Mozambique during a business trip. The main goal was to see two of our WWF projects supported by German public donors and perform an internal evaluation. Although the itinerary was very busy with not that much free time, I traveled to remote places and could interact …
When my friends Matthias and Ana told me that they would move temporarily to Morocco for work reasons, I already knew I would visit them and travel through the country for a while. During my first visit to Morocco some years ago I only explored the region around Agadir, doing day trips to Essaouira, the …
Uzbek cuisine is really about noodles, bread, rice, and meat, if you want to put it into three words. As a Central Asian country, it received influences from all directions, also because of the Silk Road, which crossed the country with Khiva, Bukhara, and Samarkand as the main reference cities. Influences from Persia, Turkic tribes, …