Bread Baking Resources

Recommended Sources for Ingredients & Equipment

• Mid-Atlantic Grains & Flour

  • Common Grain Alliance, commongrainalliance.org/shop-local

• Tools

  • Amazon

  • Breadtopia, breadtopia.com/store/

  • USA Pan - available from Amazon & Breadtopia

    • Medium (1.25 lbs.) loaf pan

    • Small Pullman pan

Recommended Sources of More Information

• Books

  • Josey Baker Bread by Josey Baker (2014, Chronicle Books)

  • Flour Power by Tara Jensen (2022, Penguin Random House)

  • Bittman Bread by Mark Bittman and Kerri Conan (2021, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

  • The Perfect Loaf by Maurizio Leo (2022, Clarkson Potter)

  • Sourdough Cookbook for Beginners by Eric Rusch and Melissa Johnson (2020, Rockridge Press)

  • Artisan Breads Every Day by Peter Reinhart (2009, Ten Speed Press)

  • Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish (2012, Ten Speed Press)

  • Evolutions in Bread by Ken Forkish (2022, Ten Speed Press)

  • The Rye Baker: Classic Breads from Europe and America by Stanley Ginsberg (2016, W.W. Norton & Co.)

• Websites, Blogs, & Newsletters

  • Breadtopia, breadtopia.com

  • Tara Jensen, taraejensen.com

  • Amy Halloran, amyhalloran.net

  • The Perfect Loaf by Maurizio Leo, theperfectloaf.com

  • Wordloaf by Andrew Janjigian, newsletter.wordloaf.org

• In-person Workshops

  • Common Grain Alliance, commongrainalliance.org

  • Tara Jensen, taraejensen.com

• Videos & Digital Workshops

  • Sourdough Bread Baking 101 by Teresa Greenway, northwestsourdough.com

  • YouTube

    • The Perfect Loaf

• Facebook Groups

  • Whole Grain Milling, Sprouting, and Baking

  • Whole Grain Sourdough Baker

• Reddit

  • r/Breadit

  • r/Sourdough

CGA Member Mark Woodward is a co-author of this resource. In retirement, Mark has become passionate about baking bread, specializing in naturally leavened breads made with home milled whole grain flours, frequently using grains grown by farmer friends in the Mid-Atlantic Region.