Taste San Francisco’s history with every bite of bread from a local bakery.
A signature flavor of Golden Gate gastronomy, sourdough bread swept through town with a craze in 1849. It’s still going strong and delicious.
As Smithsonian Magazine reported in 2017, one legend says that “Christopher Columbus was the first person to bring European sourdough to America.”
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“But the history of sourdough bread in America actually began in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush,” said the same source.
The arrival of miners and sourdough will be celebrated on Sunday when the San Francisco 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl V.
Fernando Padilla, master baker at Boudin Bakery, inspects freshly baked sourdough bread at Boudin Bakery in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The team’s name and gold-highlighted uniforms pay homage to the city’s founding enthusiasm in 1849.
Sourdough starter is made from fermented flour that is alive with naturally occurring age and bacteria.
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Beginners survived long journeys across continents on foot, horseback, and wagon. Pioneers used it to puff up their bread and fuel their golden dreams.
Miner 49ers arrived and multiplied. So were their starters.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy celebrated scoring a touchdown earlier this season. The NFL team’s name and gold uniforms pay homage to the arrival of gold seekers in San Francisco in 1849. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)
“San Francisco’s famously foggy climate was and remains the perfect environment for the wild yeast cells and naturally occurring bacteria that give sourdough its unique flavor,” National Geographic reported online in 2019. .
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The magazine also said that “the claim was soon made that no one outside a 50-mile radius of the center could make true sourdough bread.”
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After that, the legend of this bakery was discredited.
The sourdough bread business flourished in San Francisco before California claimed statehood.
Boudin Bakery was founded in 1849 and is the creator of sourdough bread, which originated in San Francisco. This bakery houses a museum dedicated to the history of San Francisco. (Liz Hafaria/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Boudin Bakery opened in 1849 and is the “oldest continuously operating business” in San Francisco, according to its website.
California entered the Union in 1850.
Boudin added: “We still bake fresh sourdough every day, using the same mother dough that we cultivated from our gold miner’s sourdough starter.”
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Sourdough and San Francisco are so synonymous that scientists call the bacteria that gives it its sour taste. Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis.
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