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Wild Yeast Bakery Ltd
Co no. 4987341
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About us
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Wild Yeast Bakery
is run by two breadnuts with generations of bread history
behind them. We ran Wild Yeast as a trade bakery for nearly
three years before stopping regular commercial baking, for
family reasons.
Basically, we're both passionate about good
bread. We like to make it, eat it, and bore anyone rigid who's
silly enough to stand in one place for too long and listen
to us talk about it.
Simon comes
from London and now lives in Cardiff. His great aunt Sophie
was a Russian Jewish emigré and Simon remembers squeezing
into her tiny kitchen in the East End, where she would perform
the most amazing baking feats. Eastern European bread and
cakes are one of the key influences for Wild Yeast.
Simon is also a consultant and a director
of f3 - the local food
consultants. He believes strongly that traditional food
production has a profound effect on health, and that trading
locally helps everyone in the local economy. Simon runs bread
courses and advises restaurants.
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Peter is from East Germany, where good bread and sourdoughs
are as important as life itself. His grandmother was a great
baker and would spoil the family with all kinds delicious
treats, some of which we try to copy today at Wild Yeast -
in fact, we apply the 'Peter's grandmother' test to all our
baking - if she would have liked it, it's OK.
Later on, when working on a biodynamic farm
near Berlin, Peter first began preparing sourdoughs, helping
the farmer's wife bake rye bread using freshly milled flour
from organic grain grown on the farm. Peter now works as resident
baker in a Camphill community for adults with learning difficulties.
Peter is currently travelling round Europe
in a double decker bus, with a wood fired oven in tow!
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