Sourdough Bread and Artisan Baking Links

Contents:

• Websites
• Tutorials
• Bakeries
• Ovens
• Books
  
• Articles
  
• Courses
• Grain, Flour, Mills, Mixes & Starters
• Regional

Sourdough and Artisan Baking Websites

• au levain (French)
• Bread cetera
• Burch and Purchese
• Dan Lepard - author of The Handmade Loaf
• Don's Sourdough
• Doughblogs
• Der Sauerteig - Sourdough forum (German)
  
• Joan's Sourdough Primer
  
• Northwest Sourdough
  
• Open Directory Project listings for Sourdough
• Sourdough & Bill44
  
• Sourdough Companion forum - Sourdough baking discussion, recipe exchange
• Sourdough Home: An Exploration of Sourdough
• Sourdough Success!
• Starting with Sourdough - Unique sourdough starters for home bread bakers just "Starting with Sourdough"
• Stir The Pots by Jeremy Shapiro - talk about what's cooking in chefs, kitchens, and food
  
• The Bread Bakers Forum
  
• The Sour Dough
• The Fresh Loaf - Community website focusing on yeast breads
  
• Wild Yeast Blog
• ye olde bread blogge

Tutorials

• How to make Sourdough: Beginner Tutorials
• Simple Sourdough: How to Bake the Best Bread in the World
• Sourdough Bread: How To Begin (easy sourdough for the beginner or novice) 

Bakeries

• Worldwide map of artisan bakeries
• UK Real Bread finder
  
   

Building Wood-fired Ovens

• Ovencrafters, Alan Scott's Home Page
• Maine Wood Heat Co. - Masonry Heaters and Wood Fired Ovens
• Sourdough Companion Ovens forum - Wood-fired oven discussions
• How To Build a Wood-Fired Oven and Start a Home Bakery (Log Cabin Chronicles)
• Building "Toasty" our wood-fired oven (www.liveearthfarm.com) (Archive.org version)
• Build your own wood-fired earth oven (Mother Earth News)
• Wood pizza oven Building wood burning brick bread ovens
• The Brick Oven Project
• Brick Oven Cooking
• Hearthcooking - Hearth Cooking Bread, Bread Ovens and kitchen gardens by William Rubel
• My Brick Oven - Matthew from New Zealand documents the construction of an Alan Scott oven in his backyard
• BlackOven - An enthusiasts view of wood fired hearth oven baking and building!
• The Breadhead and the Birth of an Oven
• Log of building of a brick oven
• The Brick Oven Page (Masonry Stove Builders)
  
• My adventures in building a brick oven in my backyard
• Panary (UK)

Books

• The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens by Daniel Wing, Alan Scott
• Build Your Own Earth Oven : A Low-Cost, Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves by Kiko Denzer
• The Book of Masonry Stoves: Rediscovering an Old Way of Warming by David Lyle
• Building a Wood-Fired Oven for Bread and Pizza and Making Bread at Home by Tom Jaine
• The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown
• The Natural Tucker Bread Book by John Downs
• The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
• The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart, Ron Manville
• Crust & Crumb: Master Formulas For Serious Bakers by Peter Reinhart
• Nancy Silverton's Breads from the La Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur by Nancy Silverton
• Classic Sourdoughs: A Home Baker's Handbook and World Sourdoughs from Antiquity by Ed Wood
• Your Brick Oven; Building it and baking in it by Russell Jeavons
• Adobe Oven for Old World Breads: Bread Cook Book by Charel Scheele
• The Handmade Loaf and Baking With Passion by Dan Lepard
• Artisan Baking across America by Maggie Glezer
• Bread: From Sourdough to Rye by Linda Collister
• The Bread Book by Linda Collister and Anthony Blake
• The Laurel's Kitchen Bread book by Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders and Bronwen Godfrey
• The Village Baker: Classic Regional Breads from Europe and America by Joe Ortiz
• The Italian Baker by Carol Field
• English Bread and Yeast Cookery by Elizabeth David
• The Taste of Bread by Raymond Calvel
• Chez Panisse Cooking by Paul Bertolli and Alice L. Waters (chapter on sourdough bread)
• The Moro Cookbook by Samuel Clark and Samantha Clark (chapter on sourdough bread)

Articles

• Wikipedia article on sourdough
• A slice of life, The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW
• Bread with a twist, The Sydney Morning Herald
• "A rising instinct", The Courier-Mail, Queensland
• "Pain's a Pleasure", The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW
• "Bread with a twist", The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW
• "Physical knead", The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW
• "A friend in knead", The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW
• "Bake by numbers", The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW
• A staple of life (the Age)
• Live sourdough cultures for bread with taste (British Society of Baking)
• How Sourdough Bread Works (from howstuffworks.com)

Breadmaking courses

Worldwide

• List of Artisan Baking Courses Worldwide
   

Australia

• Paddy's Bread (NSW, Southern Highlands)
• Convivial Times for courses at The Brasserie Bread Company (Sydney)
• Sourdough breadmaking run through the CAE (Melbourne)

Grain, Flour, Mills, Mixes, Starters and Cultures

Worldwide

Please send us additions.

Australia

• Bio-Oz. Supplier of spelt products and other organic specialty flours
• Wholegrain Milling Co Specialise in high quality Stoneground Certified Organic Flours
• All About Bread A range of bread mixes and flours
• Laucke Flour Mills
• Weston Milling
• Greengrove Flour Mills (Junee, NSW)
• Ben Furney Flour Mills (Dubbo, NSW) 101 Brisbane Street, 02 6884 4388
• Four Leaf Milling Pty Ltd Lot 120 Main Road (PO Box 83) Tarlee SA
• Kialla Pure Foods Greenmount QLD 4359
• Australian Flour Mills
• Listing of Australian Flour Millers and Wholesalers

Regional

Australia

• Discussion of good sourdoughs in Melbourne