The Great Sourdough Starter Identity Crisis of 2024

A woman's innocent Facebook post asking neighbors to babysit her sourdough starter while she's on vacation spiraled into a three-week community investigation involving starter genealogy debates, accusations of fermentation fraud, and someone creating a spreadsheet tracking the 'authentic lineage' of every starter in a 12-block radius. Spoiler alert: nobody could prove their starter was actually from San Francisco. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.