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True Loaf: Summer 2019

Issue 40 of the Real Bread Campaign supporters’ magazine is out now.

Photo © Alys Bannister / Adopt a School

News • Real Bread Campaign

Published: Wednesday 10 July 2019

The July to September issue includes…

Three is the magic number this Sourdough September: flour, water, salt
Creating a stink with salt-rising bread
Adopt a School's class act teaching kids all about Real Bread
No pain, no Grains - the story so far of this Derbyshire bakehouse
Sourdough shuttling between the UK and the antipodes

Plus...

Your chance to WIN an artist’s proof Celtic-design cast iron griddle, and a copy of Modern Sourdough: Sweet and Savoury Recipes from Margot Bakery

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A copy of the magazine has been posted to all Campaign supporters in the UK. They, and the rest of our supporters worldwide, can login to download a PDF of it (and all back issues) from the Campaign website.

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News • Real Bread Campaign

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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What's in a name?. Copyright: Roberts Bakery (fair use)

What’s ‘wholemeal’ hiding?

Blog Real Bread Campaign

Basic, better, best? (or basic, basic, basic?). Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0

Supermarket loaves: why the massive markup?

News Real Bread Campaign

Pointing the way. Credit: Canva / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0

New bread and flour guidance: gains and omissions

Blog Real Bread Campaign

Facts behind the marketing. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0

What Lidl doesn’t want you to know

News Real Bread Campaign

Now all we knead is dough to do it.... Credit: Canva / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0

Real Bread Campaign project plans

News Real Bread Campaign

Category, and overall, winners. Copyright: British Baker

Britain’s Best Loaf winners

Blog Real Bread Campaign

How much whole grain per slice?. Credit: Chris Young / www.realbreadcampaign.org CC-BY-SA-4.0

Is Kingsmill’s whole grain claim legit?

News Real Bread Campaign

Real Bread Campaign’s Aldi half-white ‘wholemeal’ win

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