True Loaf magazine issue 68 out now

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This issue comes to you thanks to a wave of people who responded to my email plea for articles back in July 2026.* Appropriately, the result is a collection of pieces that include a fair smattering of ones focussed on community. 

In the Veneto region of Italy, Nathan Cal Danby and Amalia Sacchi are settling in as the neighbourhood’s bakers; while Maureen Breeze is bringing people together in west England to discover and share baking knowledge together. In Sussex, Charlotte Vrinten goes behind the counter of a bakery that offers people more than ‘just’ Real Bread. 

Not everyone involved in the rise of Real Bread is a baker: Wendy Barrie writes of seed saving in Scotland; and in Connecticut, USA, Alex Ricciardi nominates a baking equipment maker as a Real Bread Hero. On the subject of kit, Peter Garner remembers a bakery equipment engineer – his father; while Sofia Gallo delves into the history books to serve up northern English clapcakes.

As our supporters have a wide range of backgrounds, identities and interests, I continue working to publish articles on a mix of subjects. If you there’s something, or someone, associated with Real Bread that you’d like to write about, please email me.

Happy baking,

Chris Young
(True Loaf editor)

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Features in this issue

• Bread to hold a community together: Nathan Cal Danby and Amalia Sacchi are baking a future in the Veneto region of Italy
• Loaves, lessons and local bakers: Maureen Breeze on the Real Bread enthusiasts’ group she set up in her village.
• Remembering a bakery engineer: Peter Garner’s father worked for Baker Perkins between the 1940s and 1970s.
• Roots and resilience: Sofia Gallo explains how the future of Real Bread can learn from its mixed past.
• Community wellbeing through Real Bread making: Charlotte Vrinten brings the Stoneham Bakehouse story up to date. 
• Real Bread Hero: Tyler Cartner: Baking is not the only profession of people involved in the rise of Real Bread, says Alex Ricciardi.
• Seed saving in Scotland: Food writer and Slow Food cook, Wendy Barrie, on the Caledonian non-commodity grain revival.

Plus: a 'Let it Dough' poster for the winter months, which our supporters can also download to print.

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