From the Editor
LIKE MANY PEOPLE IN 2020, I PUT SOURDOUGH ON A LIST OF PROJECTS I WANTED TO TRY. (I love baking bread but was a newbie to the scientific mysteries of sourdough.) It was April that year when I put together my first sourdough starter, whisking together flour and water with the hope that (with daily feedings) it would start bubbling within the 5- to 7-day time frame the recipe noted. It didn’t. It looked like a paste, smelled like flour, and the bubbles were nonexistent. No problem, I thought, and just kept feeding it—and waiting. Eventually, I noticed some bubbles at the surface of the mixture and assumed I was getting close. The starter still didn’t look like any photos I’d seen. But it had been more than a week, and…