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Get bready for Urban Food Fortnight

London Food Link’s eighth annual capital culinary celebration runs from 19 September to 3 October.

Budding bakers © Hen Corner

News • Real Bread Campaign

Published: Monday 16 September 2019

Fermentative frolics on the #UFF2019 map include:

Better Health Bakery's sourdough starter giveaway
Chelsea Green presents fermentation guru Sandor Katz in conversation with Honey & Co.
Hen Corner's Sourdoughs and special breads class
Notting Hill Farmers' Market's 20th birthday party
Sodo Pizza's 15% off sourdough pizza for London Food Link supporters
Well Kneaded's Miso special pizza, plus 25% UFF discount

Find full details of these, and many more, classes, feasts and other good food events on the Urban Food Fortnight map.

…plus of course everything Real Bread Campaign supporters and friends are doing in #SourdoughSeptember and beyond.

London Food Link was founded by the charity Sustain in 2002 and launched UFF in 2012 as the annual highlight of its year-round work connecting and championing the people who grow, make, cook, sell, forage, save and simply enjoy good food in the capital.

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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; 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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