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Is My Sourdough Starter Dead? Your Starter Dilemmas Addressed.

Posted on April 15, 2020May 26, 2020by The Zero-Waste Chef

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Need help coaxing your sourdough starter to life? What can you do with all the discard? And what is a levain? Learn the answers to these questions and more.

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Carlsberg, Coca-Cola and Danone hope to package products in plastics made from plant-based sugars.
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"The path-finder project will initially make a modest 5,000 tonnes of plastic every year using sugars from corn, wheat or beets [...] In time, Avantium plans to use plant sugars from sustainable sourced biowaste so that the rise of plant plastic does not affect the global food supply chain."
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People want their Coke. But it seems like a waste to grow food crops that people could eat in order to create packaging for food-like products we don't need. Biowaste sounds better (not sure what that is).
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Plastic food packaging isn't the only problem. Food that makes us sick is also a problem.
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Source: @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/16/the-end-of-plastic-new-plant-based-bottles-will-degrade-in-a-year

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This is one of my favorite places in Northern Cali

This is one of my favorite places in Northern California—Point Lobos. My daughter Charlotte and I made the short trip for her birthday at the beginning of March. Days later, I headed to Canada to see my mom, my daughter MK and my sister. I’ve been here for over two months now. I brought only a carry on bag, a SCOBY and my sourdough starter. So let’s just say I’m embracing my long-time dream of uber minimalism, if not exactly planned!
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Today, my sister will drop off jars, books and some spare kitchen equipment. I can’t visit with her—she’s a doctor in a small town that had one of the first and worst outbreaks in Ontario—so we’ll just chat a little bit while physical distancing. I can’t tell you how grateful I will be to get more jars and more books. And while I miss my people and Northern California terribly, I am also grateful to be healthy and in a safe place.
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