California and the West Coast, especially SF , is famous, in the past, for real sourdough bread. Not stuff that tastes like newspaper from the SFO airport or Fisherman's Wharf. You can't make it or find it on the East coast, as a BU medical student had me airmail loaves he could freeze to get thru Boston and 4 long ,horrid Summer/Winter weather, East coast years. Most lazy restaurants try to get away with serving bread/sourdough cold vs warm. Shame!!
Toscana and Colombo use to be widely available in lots of groceries and very good. Especially the round shape vs the cylindrical baguette. One even had Extra Sour Sourdough ! Now one of the baking companies is based in ,,, texas!!
Now, the best sourdough bread i've tasted is Costco's ALFARO'S SANTA CRUZ SOURDOUGH !!
Thank you, Costco, for a high quality choice !! Acme,,,is ok,,,
But, really, why no celebration of our gold digger and gold mining California history in a baking contest of store bought and available sour tasting, real Sourdough bread ?
No guts ?
No glory.
