Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Sourdough”
Checking Your Sourdough Into a Hotel
Somewhere near Copenhagen, a hotel guest is being fed twice a day, kept at a carefully controlled temperature, and picked up from home by bicycle. The guest is a jar of beige goo. It has a name, a family history, and an owner who paid real money for the room. Welcome to the strange, surprisingly scientific world of sourdough hotels — and to the microbiology that explains why they exist, what they actually accomplish, and the one thing they never mention at check-in.