Boudin Sourdough Bakery: A Must-Stop (for Foodies) in San Francisco
| 
Bread … mmmmmm …
So of course when we were in San Francisco, we had to stop at the Boudin Sourdough Demonstration Bakery . I loved everything about it: There was a terrific store on the first floor that a foodie can fall into. It had amazing olive oils, dips, soups, herbs, cooking utensils, cute serving pieces, cheese platters, California wines, yummmm …. I’d love to go back there and spend more time. (I would have done all my Christmas shopping there if I thought I could’ve fit it all in my suitcase!) We did buy the kids some hot-chocolate mix, and bought my parents (and the kids) some sourdough loaves to eat while we told them about our trip when we came home.
Here’s me, very happy there:
After we shopped around, we got lunch at the bakery cafe, and then I was REALLY happy, because that was one delicious lunch. We ate outside, on the patio by Fisherman’s Wharf. We each got bread bowls — mine was a creamy-tomato-soup bowl filled with crunchy sourdough croutons, and Superman had a chili bowl with a beer. Here’s mine:
THEN — the part I wanted to tell you about — is that there is a cool little Boudin sourdough bread “museum” on the top floor of the factory. It’s a self-guided tour, $3 per person. It’s a beautifully put-together little walk-through that includes some basic information about San Francisco history (the Gold Rush, the 1906 earthquake, the fires, etc.) and how it translated to the Boudin family making their home in San Francisco. Then it goes into the history of the family and how they brought their famous sourdough recipe (and “mother starter” to make all subsequent loaves just perfect). It also had some cute interactive displays (great for kids) about why San Francisco’s climate provides the just-right environment for making sourdough bread. It was a very cool little museum! (Incidentally, if you can’t make it to San Francisco, but you happen to be in Anaheim, Disneyland’s “California Adventure” provides a pretty good overview of the same process and interesting facts about Boudin.)
...Dangerous Dan McGrew Recited by Robert Service
as "Spell of the Yukon", in the US Service said that Dan Mcgrew made him $500000 ... Sourdough Robert Service Yukon Alaska Dawson Sam ...
magicstat thermostat Directory
A sourdough starter is a stable symbiotic culture of bacteria ... Klondike Gold Rush where sourdough was a word for an experienced miner[8] [edit] References ...
Sourdough Starters - Alaska is a personally written site at BellaOnline ... Sourdough bread did come by its common name during the gold rush period in ...
After the California gold rush, when the Klondike prospectors sailed from San ... "We've developed an easy sourdough starter by combining unbleached all purpose ...
Gold Rush Sourdough Starter. Open plastic starter packet & place in a large plastic bowl. ... not all of the sourdough starter cultures will dissolve. This is ...
Gold Rush Old Fashioned San Francisco Style Soughdough Bread Starter, 0.5-Ounce Packets (Pack of 24): Contains: Starter & Recipes. In early California, sourdough was ...