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Centre of Research & Education in Nutrition & Digestibility of Bread & the Gut Microbiome

The bread that you eat every day has a powerful, influence on both your phyical and mental health. We teach a groundbreaking, evidence-based approach to bread to nourish your gut microbiome and support health. Our courses are open to wide range of people, including bakers and healthcare professionals to learn how to bake and eat beautiful bread as lifestyle medicine. "Vanessa’s work on sourdough and the gut microbiome is changing the way we think of food, health and baking.” - Tim Spector
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Sourdough Starter Jar White
Pottery West Sourdough Starter pot

SOLD OUT: Sourdough Starter Jar – White – Limited Edition

£59.99

ALL 100 JARS SOLD IN 12 HOURS! WE ARE CONSIDERING ANOTHER RUN OF THESE IN A DIFFERENT COLOUR. TO BE THE FIRST TO KNOW ABOUT THIS PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

WATCH OUR SOURDOUGH SCHOOL INSTAGRAM LIVE with Matt of Pottery West this Thursday 17th September at 3pm

Our new and limited edition Sourdough Starter Jars have been hand thrown in a high-iron stoneware and glazed in a simple tin white glaze. These beautiful and unique Sourdough Sourdough Jars are the product of a collaboration between Catherine & Matt West of Pottery West and the Sourdough School, and have been designed to store your sourdough starter, in readiness for making sourdough bread and bakes. There are just 100 available of this colour.

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ALL 100 JARS SOLD IN 12 HOURS! WE ARE CONSIDERING ANOTHER RUN OF THESE IN A DIFFERENT COLOUR. TO BE THE FIRST TO KNOW ABOUT THIS PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Our new and limited edition Sourdough Starter Jars have been hand thrown in a high-iron stoneware and glazed in a simple tin white glaze. These beautiful and unique Sourdough Sourdough Jars are the product of a collaboration between Catherine & Matt West of Pottery West and the Sourdough School, and have been designed to store your sourdough starter, in readiness for making your sourdough bread and bakes.

I came across Pottery West when I was given a gift made by them. I was given one of their cups. It was one of the most aesthetically perfect cups I have ever held and I just couldn’t live with only one, so I bought another one and another one and gradually over a number of years I completely fell in love with their philosophy and their care and attention to detail. And it is interesting because when I contacted Matt to ask if he would consider applying that same attention to detail and aesthetic delight – pottery that you want to touch and hold – and he mentioned that he used to be a baker. And I suddenly understood there is a cross over between handling clay and dough, and that possibly out of all the potters that I know they were the best to work with on this project. Understanding balance and weight and how a piece feels in your hand, and that feeling you get when you touch or pick something up is a beautiful thing. And I think with a starter pot it is incredibly important to know how the starter behaves in the pot and know the weight of the pot and know how the formula feels inside. The aim is to get a regular routine that enables you to bake instinctively, not always from a recipe, and part of that is in using equipment that you connect to. Not just the joy of baking but the joy of the process is in touch and I think that our pottery Sourdough Starter Jars are so beautifully balanced, robust and tactile.

For years now I have bought glass or ceramic storage jars from various different companies, for both myself and my students to keep our sourdough starter in, but these Sourdough Starter Jars have been made just for us and they feel so special and beautiful, and are such an incredible quality. I hope you love them as much as I do. There are only 100 available of this colour…

Each jar is individually numbered out of an edition of 100.

Dimensions: 

9.5cm ø (10cm ø including lid)

12.5cm high (13.5cm including lid)

Capacity: 675ml

Please note that as the jars are hand-thrown dimensions and capacity may vary.

Care Instructions:

To wash the pot, simply soak in hot soapy water for an hour and any dried starter will easily wash off. Do not dry with a tea towel because this may contaminate the inside of the pot.

How To Claim Your Free Sourdough Starter:

To claim your free starter please follow the instructions with your jar.

We will then send you a link for your starter to be delivered to you, which is free, but you will need to pay for postage. Alternatively please go to https://www.sourdough.co.uk/getting-a-sourdough-starter-going-from-scratch to create your own.

If you would like to learn to bake sourdough bread online with Vanessa please join us at The Sourdough Club

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THE GENDER GAP IN HEART DIAGNOSIS
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According to a report by the British Heart Foundation, more than 8,200 women died needlessly over a ten year period due to inequalities in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. Concerningly, women fare worse at every stage in their health journey for heart disease globally. 
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DID YOU KNOW?
-	Women get half as much heart attack treatment as men 
-	Women are 50% more likely to receive a wrong initial diagnosis than their male counterpart, increasing the risk of death by as much as 70%
-	Women are less likey than men to recieve standard treatments such as bypass surgery
We can and must do better, starting by tackling the false- and deadly- assumption that women are not at risk of heart attacks. In reality, women are twice as likely to die from coronary heart disease than breast cancer.
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🌾Whole Grain Consumption And Heart Disease Protection
There is a robust body of evidence that suggests whole grains can protect against coronary heart disease, alongside obesity and colorectal cancer.
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❤️ According to a senior dietician at the British Heart Foundation: "Eating more whole grains is a simple change we can make to improve our diet and help lower our risk of heart and circulatory disease." Opting for wholemeal or granary in favour of refined white bread is a simple, effective way to increase your whole grain and fibre intake. #hearthealth #healthyheart #wholegrain #feedthecells #lifestylemedice #bake2give1 #wholegrainbread #internationalwomensday
A NEW APPROACH

👉🏻 For the past 3 years we’ve been working on something incredible … prescription sourdough bread making courses for our @sourdoughclub members 

📈We have had amazing advances in healthcare, but there is no pill to cure poor diet. The best medicine is prevention via a healthy lifestyle, and many studies have shown that people who eat healthily and exercise regularly sleep better, have less anxiety and depression, have more energy, and lower their risk of chronic illness overall.

🙌 Vanessa’s work on Bread & the Impact on the Gut Microbiome has been turned into something extraordinary. Prescription bread-making courses as a lifestyle intervention, and the Bread Protocol we teach here is designed to address the way you live, exploring behaviour related to nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep, social support and environmental exposures. These courses are 12 weeks long, and designed to maintain health and prevent disease not just in individuals bit in patients and populations, so we have 2 ways to enrol on a course: 

1️⃣ SOCIAL PRESCRIPTION 
If your doctor or healthcare practitioner is one of  our Sourdough School graduates and they feel that this bread-making prescription course is something that will improve your health, then they may can prescribe the course for you as a social prescription free.

2️⃣ SELF PRESCRIPTION 
You can self-prescribe these courses by enrolling yourself on a course to improve your health and wellbeing.

📰 If you are interested in learning more about the prescription courses then please sign up to the newsletters as we will be announcing their launch over the coming weeks and months. 

@vanessakimbell
@drmiguelmateas 
@dralexdavidson 
@dksherratt 

#lifestylemedicine #preventativemedicine #systemschange #socialprescribingday #socialprescribing
IN 2016 WE TESTED BLOOD SUGAR RESPONSE TO OUR PUMP IN 2016 WE TESTED BLOOD SUGAR RESPONSE TO OUR PUMPKIN SOURDOUGH IN THE  CLASSES

Our students measured their responses throughout the #breadandguts #sourdoughschool & @vanessakimbell wrote the recipe up in her bestselling Sourdough School book.

✨ So good to read that a recent 2021 study on Glycaemic and Appetite Suppression Effect of a Vegetable-Enriched Bread ( mentioned by @theguthealthdoctor today see last slide ) where researchers looked at the impacts of veg-enriched bread compared to  commercial white bread and commercial brown bread on the insulin levels of people participating. 

The results showed that when the participants ate the veg bread they reported feeling more satiation versus when they ate the white or brown bread. 

👆🏼They also experienced a lower insulin response with the vegetable bread. 
essentially translating this science into practice before it was trendy 😂👆🏼👍

This image is taken from the @sourdoughschool book by @vanessakimbell, produced by @kylebooksuk, with photography by @nassimarothacker, styled by @season_adam & with foreword by @richardhartbaker
DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN ONLINE SHOP & CAN PURCHASE DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN ONLINE SHOP & CAN PURCHASE MY WHITE SOURDOUGH STARTER?
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I have several sourdough starters but The French white starter is one that I have been using since I was 11 years old and originates in the bakery I grew up baking within France. It takes a bit longer to reach it’s peak and is generally slower and sweeter, and much more forgiving of being neglected for a week, so the one I recommend for beginners. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We have verbal confirmation that the starter originated over 115 years ago and If you swipe right in the video you can listen to me chatting to one of the older residents of the village confirming that bakery did not shut during the war either .. & it has been maintained ever since... it’s a lovely story. Although the microbes double every 20 – 30 minutes when they are refreshed ... so it is either over a century old or 30 minutes old depending on how you want to look at it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
You can purchase a pot of my starter, along with a grey moon kilner jar & a mini video course on looking after your starter. 
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TAP THE PICTURE TO SHOP.
 
Swipe right to see the amazing video of the French bakery where the starter originated from @vanessakimbell has been baking with this starter for over 20 years … and first baked almost 40 years ago with it …#romantic 
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#breadbosses #breadporn #flourwatersalt #breadtalk #bread #breadstagram #sourdough #sourdoughschool #bread #sourdoughlove #sourdoughlover #naturalleavened #leavening #levain #realbread #breadmaking #bakebread #makebread #makerealbread #learntobakebread #breadmakingclass #sourdoughstories #bakingforlove #bakingtherapy #sourdoughbaking #bannetons #bakery
UNDERSTANDING SOURDOUGH … starts, not in the bak UNDERSTANDING SOURDOUGH …
starts, not in the bakery, but in the soil.
#sourdough
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