True Loaf spring 2018 issue out now

Brixton Windmill by Chris Young

Published: Monday 9 April 2018

Features include:

Baking in Egypt by Baladee Bread owner, and multiple World Bread Awards winner Khaled Galal
Real Bread Campaign coordinator Chris Young chatting to Alice Williams, founder of social enterprise Luminary Bakery, that works with disadvantaged women
Artisan Bakery School co-owner Penny Williams on baking with ancient and heritage wheat flours
Mike Matters visiting Ashby’s windmill in Brixton for a look at Britain’s remaining inner-city traditional flour mills
Roseanne Cecil travelling on Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast between her own Blackthorn and Willow Bakery and fellow Real Bread Campaign supporter bakery Ursa Minor
Hannah Riviere Scott opens the door to her home-based Hempnall microbakery
How and why Hazel Roberts set herself the challenge of giving up sandwiches for a month
A look ahead to the BATCH: South West event in July

The magazine also includes the chance to WIN the books Flour by Christine McFadden and Loaves for All Seasons by Rosanne Cecil.

The magazine has been posted to Real Bread Campaign supporters in the UK and is available to download by Campaign supporters worldwide.

To support the Real Bread Campaign’s work, read the magazine and benefit from discounts and more, join today.

Photo: Brixton Windmill by Chris Young

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Chris Young

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Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws in the UK; he created and runs initiatives including: Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise, promoting therapeutic/social benefits of bread making; No Loaf Lost surplus reduction guidance; and Lessons in Loaf for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook, Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book and Bake Your Lawn grow-a-loaf guidebook; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated Sustain's London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards with the Mayor of London’s office. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship, and in 2025 he was named joint Person of The Year by Slow Food in The UK.

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