I’m a passionate, 100% self-taught sourdough baker from Slovenia. I’m a translator and teacher by education and previous career, but I found my greatest passion and obsession in sourdough. I started baking in 2012, when my husband Sa\u0161o had his gallbladder removed and could no longer eat yeasted bread due to bloating and other health issues. I began researching what other ways there were to bake soft, crusty, and delicious bread. Lots of online reading and a library of foreign books later, I finally remembered that my grandmother used to bake bread in a different way \u2013 by saving a small portion of dough and drying it for the next batch.<\/p>\n
All of a sudden everything clicked into place! My first attempt to make my own starter \u2013 a simple fermenting mixture of flour and water \u2013 wasn\u2019t successful. I didn\u2019t give up, and made my second one and it thrived. This second starter has been with me ever since. I named him ”Rudl” and now he is the most famous Slovenian sourdough starter.<\/p>\n
In 2016, Puratos invited me to Belgium to explore the First Sourdough Library in the World. Since then, I\u2019ve become one of the first 13 ambassadors for the library and its online version, The Quest for Sourdough, to promote the use of sourdough around the world. Scoring bread doesn’t only help bread rise in the oven, but you can also get super creative with it. That’s what I did; tracing intricate and inspiring patterns along my bread\u2019s crust.<\/p>\n
Then I started gifting my bread to family, friends, and relatives for special occasions or just as something nice. And everyone loved it! So I decided that I wanted to share my passion with the rest of the world and created my IG account, posting my first SD bread photo in October 2016.<\/p>\n