I'm our team powers. It's Saturday, May 2nd. This is a bonus episode of Post Reports.

Do you have your starter with you by any chance?

I don't. You want me to go get it?

Yes. Okay.

So what is the story that you've been working on?

I have been working on this story about the rise of sourdough bread baking during the pandemic.

I'm Marina Flores and I am a producer for Post Reports.

I'd almost forgotten to feed my starter.

It actually started because our executive producer, Madelica, very recently has started her own sourdough journey.

I've baked bread for years actually on and off. Never done a sourdough starter.

She's had a little bit of trouble with the rise of her loves with reviving the starter.

And so she and I have just been talking constantly about how to care for the sourdough starter.

How much do I just call it though?

You've discarded everything.

Basically, I became interested because I couldn't escape this idea.

Like I was talking about it at work on Zoom calls and then also on social media,

all of my Twitter timeline, my Instagram stories that I was seeing was just people baking bread.

Here we are.

So this is the part that I don't really understand because you talk about the sourdough starter,

growing it, tending to it, and it sounds like it's an actual living thing.

What exactly is sourdough starter? How does it work?

Yeah. And let me actually start from what makes the process of sourdough sort of different from

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