True Loaf

Welcome to True Loaf, the exclusive full-colour magazine for Real Bread Campaign members. Each issue is packed with a whole basket of Real Bread goodies, including news from around the country, features, profiles, interviews and even a free poster on the back cover.

Members receive True Loaf once a quarter or can download a digital version here.

For details of how you can support the campaign and get four issues of True Loaf to boot, click here.


Issue 4 July - September 2010
News and events roundup, The Gallery, on course at the Lighthouse Bakery, Andrew Auld at the loaf in Crich shares the many stories of bread, food writer and campaigner Silvija Davidson asks what is tradition?, Bread Hero, master baker Tom Herbert on Shepherding the future of Real Bread, Signe Johansen's love letter to Scandinavian crispbread, a recipe for real scones, a professional Real Bread recipe from the archives and a local loaf lover poster.

Issue 3 April - June 2010
Food writer and campaigner Silvija Davidson interviews Bread Hero Richard Bertinet; Tom Baker of Loaf social enterprise goes In search of a local loaf; the first-ever National Real Bread Maker Week, Are supermarket bloomers pants? Real Bread at the Real Food Festival; the Real Bread Campaign at Fifteen London; Real Bread: already a real choice? Andrew Whitley reports from BioFach in Germany; From the archives.

Issue 2 January - March 2010
Interview: Caroline Conran, Book Review: The Sunday Times Book of Real Bread, The quest for the perfect pizza, Bread Hero: Andrew Whitley, Spelt: the ‘new’ bread on the street? Biofuels, Real Bread is part of the Bigger Picture

Issue 1 October - December 2009
Lammas, In Praise of Crumbs, Time for bread, Real Bread represents Good Food for Our Money, Slices of life,Should flour be fortified with folic acid? Kids’ school lunches kneed Real Bread, Under the grill: The Federation of Bakers, Recipe: Simple sourdough starter, Bread Heroes: The Thoughtful Bread Company


If you would like to help the campaign save paper (and a bit of cash) by reading True Loaf online, rather than receive the magazine, please drop us a line. If we don’t hear from you, we’ll continue to post them.

Your shout

As a campaign member, this is your magazine so please let us know what you think: what would you like to see in the next issue? 

Even better, we'd like to help you share your own part in the fight for better bread with your fellow members, so do you have any Real Bread stories or images of your own that you’d like to share with your fellow members?  Any bready events coming up?  Any tasty snaps of Real Bread or happy faces of people learning about or eating lovely loaves?



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