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Great addition to a bready bookshelf. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0

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Great addition to a bready bookshelf. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0

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Published: Tuesday 26 April 2022

Planning or expanding a micro/small bakery business? This is the fount of all* knowledge for you!

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Run a bakery, baking school, mill, bookshop, baking/cooking equipment supplier, or any other business frequented by passionate home bakers?

You can help towards our aim of a place to buy Real Bread in every local community and make a few quid for yourself.

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We’ve sold more than half the print run. Shifting the rest will not only support our charity’s work but also let us move onto the next step of a publisher making it available worldwide and as an ebook.

“Do you want to turn your baking hobby into a microbusiness? Because if you do, you should get this book." Prue Leith

*well, quite a bit.

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Real Bread Campaign: Finding and sharing ways to make bread better for us, our communities and planet.

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Chris Young
Campaign Coordinator
Real Bread Campaign

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; he created and runs Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise promoting therapeutic/social benefits and bread making; the No Loaf Lost surplus reduction initiative; as well as Lessons in Loaf and Bake Your Lawn for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook and Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated the London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards. 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.

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