What's Special About San Francisco’s Sourdough?

Bay Curious

KQED

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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We've got food on the mind this week, so are bringing back one of our all-time favorite episodes! Dig into the science behind San Francisco sourdough, and get to know the bacteria that shares our name: Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis. Additional Reading: What Makes San Francisco Sourdough Unique? Reported by Julia Scott. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, and Katie McMurran. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Ethan Lindsey and Vinnee Tong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From K-Q-Q-ED.
0:05.0	Hey everybody, Olivia-E-Price here and you're listening to Bay Curious.
0:12.0	On this holiday week, I will be spending a lot more and you're listening to Bay Curious.
0:12.6	On this holiday week, I will be spending a lot more time
0:15.6	in the kitchen than usual, making all of our holiday favorites.
0:19.8	Sweet potato casserole, roasted brussel sprouts, maybe a chocolate pecan pie if there's
0:25.0	time.
0:26.0	We're scaling back on Thanksgiving gathering this year, but the menu is staying the same.
0:30.7	So we'll be eating leftovers four weeks, if not months. In honor of all the other
0:36.1	home cooks out there slogging away in the kitchen today, I want to play you one of my favorite
0:40.5	early Bay Curious episodes. It first ran in 2017 and takes on one of the most iconic local foods.
0:48.0	We'll get to it right after this. Support for Bay Curious
0:55.8	Bekirious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family owned,
1:00.0	operated and argued over.
1:02.1	Explore their brews wherever fine beverages are sold and
1:05.2	taste how trailblazing runs in the family. Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find your
1:10.8	new favorite beer today.
1:13.0	This week I'm with reporter Julia Scott
1:16.0	and we're having a locally known favorite for lunch.
1:19.0	Sour dough bread.
1:21.0	You know, if bagels are in New York thing San Francisco definitely has sourdough and of course we're at one of the mecca of sourdough in the city
1:28.6	Bo Dean Bakery in Fisherman's Wharf probably no one has convinced more people that our sourdough is unique than
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