Yeast Doesn’t Fly and Your Sourdough Probably Isn’t That Special

What we’ve learned so far in the home baking era

Sara May couldn’t keep her starter, Dave Startley, alive. Photo courtesy of Sara May

Sara May threw away her Covid-era sourdough starter on July 7. She had named it Dave Startley, after the The War On Drugs bassist Dave Hartley, but May, a hospitality professional and writer, neglected him for a few weeks during a move from Philadelphia to Ithaca, New York…