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How to fix your relationship with bread by Dr Vanessa Kimbell

Long-form writing by Dr Vanessa Kimbell.

Vanessa is a fourth-generation, time-served baker. The daughter of an Italian chef, she trained in France, is a bestselling author, founded The Sourdough School over twenty years ago, and holds the world’s first doctorate in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM) and Preventative Health. She will teach you to use your bread as a delicious strategy to deliver fibre, diversity and nourishment as the foundation to health every day. Begin anywhere, and a single loaf will lead you into the soil it grew from, the farmer who grew it, the fermentation that transformed it, the gut and the genome it nourishes, and a way of baking that transforms how you bake, eat and share your bread. For in person courses, consultations and training in BALM visit The Sourdough School, or book a 1:1 meeting to get your bread personalised.

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