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Microbes make a home among the starch grains of your sourdough starter. Daniel Veghte, CC BY-SA Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for ...

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This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years. The components of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel Veghte, The Ohio State University (THE CONVERSATION) Sourdough is the oldest ...