My guest today is Jennifer Lapidus. Jennifer is the founder of Carolina Ground Flour Mill in Asheville, North Carolina. Before she was a miller, Jennifer founded Natural Bridge Bakery where she baked her naturally leavened breads in a wood fired brick oven. I’m honored to be speaking with Jennifer about her recently published book SOUTHERN GROUND - it’s truly a love letter to Southern craft bakers and a celebration of stone milled flour and locally farmed grains.
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On this episode of The Sourdough Podcast, I speak with Jennifer Lapidus about her new book SOUTHERN GROUND. We discuss her beginnings as a baker’s apprentice in the 90s and how she eventually went on to found her own bakery. She shares how the financial crisis in 2008 affected her local grain economy - motivating bakers, millers, farmers, and researchers to work together, culminating in the movement that made the founding of her mill possible. I pick her brain about how best to cultivate a similar movement in my part of the country as she reflects on her own grain economy’s evolution over the last few decades. Jennifer has an abundance of wisdom to share so stay with us - you won’t want to miss this episode.
