HAPPY BAKING, MY FRIENDS!

At the beginning, the idea of creating your own liquid wild yeast starter, maintaining it, and using it to make your own bread can seem mystifying, especially if you start with the idea that wild yeast starter is complicated and hard to manage! Believe me when I tell you that sometimes all it takes is trying again to completely change how things look—one fresh start to become completely adept at making and using starter and all the multitude of options that it opens up to us. From bread to brioche, by way of croissants and cakes, almost anything you bake can lend itself to this kind of leavening, providing greater tasting pleasure and more personal satisfaction. . . .

A starter can last for years, can be a precious ingredient in your daily life, and can even be passed on and shared. You will see that over the course of your attempts and the many slices of bread that you get to eat warm, a very simple but wonderful thing starts to happen: you start to take pleasure again in making, with your own hands, something as grand as your daily bread!