![]() ![]() And then she discovers something else: This starter, which needs music to bubble happily and creates loaves of bread with strange faces baked into them, isn't like other starters. Lois, who works at a company that creates industrial robotic arms, quickly discovers how satisfying it is to create something using her own arms, fulfilling some human need she hadn't even realized had gone unfulfilled. ![]() ![]() This is the realization that San Francisco engineer Lois Clarry has in Sourdough, when she inherits a mysteriously potent sourdough starter from two brothers she orders delivery from every night. You combine ingredients that you've had sitting in the pantry all along-nothing in my hat, nothing up my sleeve-and by stirring them in the right ratio and plopping in the oven, you've turned inedible, tasteless powders into bread. Baking has always seemed a form of magic to me. ![]()
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