05/12/2026
We were in Alaska last summer when a chef at the Lodge at Well Pass handed me a jar.
She had poured live sourdough starter into it that morning. She told me to put it in my checked luggage. Said it's cold in the bottom of the plane, it'll be fine.
The starter was a hundred years old. A gold miner's family had been feeding it since the 1920s. The chef kept it alive after them.
I had tried sourdough before this. Ordered a dehydrated starter, tried to grow it, it didn't work. This one was alive when she gave it to me and it's still alive now.
I feed it every night before bed. Eight loaves a day, five days a week.
It has not missed once.
Now a piece of it can come home with you. Link in bio.