Chef Gabriele Bonci uses 200-year-old starters for his sourdough, making for a deliciously fluffy crust.
I've used it in brownies, too, and transformed my favorite Thanksgiving pumpkin roll with sourdough.
The worst offender: Applebee's grilled cheese sandwich on sourdough bread with fries and 2% chocolate milk.
All sourdough recipes begin with a starter a mixture of flour, water and a little sugar.
Vermont's King Arthur Flour offers a history of sourdough, including notes from the son of an Alaskan miner.
Sourdough is the oldest form of leavened bread and was used at least as early as ancient Egypt.
To snag a freshly baked loaf, check online every day after 4:30 pm or pre-order your sourdough three days in advance.
Founded in 2008 by Danny Gabriner, it began as a home experiment with sourdough baking that resulted in a doughy vision.
At Acme Bread Company, pick up a sourdough loaf that is said to have launched an artisanal bread-making revolution in the 1980s.
The cooler weather seems like a good time to make a sourdough starter, flip pancakes, bake bread or roll out biscuits.
The store was also a very strong food outlet, featuring specialty items such as real sourdough bread, whole coffee beans etc.
The craft and cuisine extravaganza fills the ground floor with food stalls, selling everything from Ethiopian curries and injera (sourdough pancakes) to handmade ravioli.
The history of sourdough, however, begins long before miners came to Alaska.
At the time, I cooked on an old wood cook stove, a throwback to a time when sourdough was common in home kitchens.
The extra tanginess that comes with age is highly prized, and is why older starters become treasured members of the family for sourdough junkies.
Taking its cue from the age-old Neapolitan tradition, pizzas are made from slowly proofed sourdough, San Marzano tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella singed in an extremely hot wood-fired oven.
Other mascots that scored highly on The Marketing Arm's Davie-Brown Index are Mr. Met (New York Mets), the Racing Sausages (Milwaukee Brewers) and Sourdough Sam (San Francisco 49ers).
Early settlers in the West, especially those adventurers who traveled north to Alaska, relied on sourdough to leaven bread before commercial baking powder and yeast were readily available.
Just the mention of sourdough pancakes makes my mouth water.
But even as I grew confident around a stove, progressing from roasting a chicken to boning a duck, from baking muffins to culturing sourdough, I avoided making funnel cake.
"Sourdough" even became the nickname for California Klondike miners at the turn of the last century because they carried starter in their backpacks to make bread without having to find a town, let alone yeast.
Running parallel to Electric Avenue and steps from Grandville Arcade, Market Row is home to Franco Manca, a pizzeria that drew attention to the area well before the Spacemakers regeneration project for its Neapolitan-quality wood-fired sourdough pizzas.
It dishes up authentic Polish cuisine with an international twist, along the lines of beef stroganoff with chanterelle mushrooms served in a hollowed-out loaf of sourdough bread, and saddle of roe deer marinated in red wine and served with blueberry jelly.
This year, for example, nearly all 44, 000 Holland America passengers who travel to Fairbanks will visit its Gold Dredge No. 8 via its Gray Line buses, where they will eat a "sourdough" lunch of stew and biscuits, tour the site and pan for gold.
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