The Sourdough School

Baking eating and sharing bread to improve physical and mental health

Using a robust evidence-based baking protocol combining the evidence of thousands of years of baking with modern clinical insights, we offer comprehensive training to bakers and healthcare professionals, providing students with the tools to use baking in everyday practice as a wellness intervention.
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Baking as Lifestyle Medicine for Bakers and Clinicians

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Michael James

 

Michael James

Michael James is an accomplished chef and baker who grew up in Penzance before moving to London, where he met his wife, Pippa James, at restaurant Pied à Terre. They moved to Australia in 2004, opening the Tivoli Road Bakery in Melbourne in 2013. Michael consults internationally and teaches.

As co-founders of Grainz, they are committed to sustainability as active members of Melbourne’s baking, grain-growing and milling community.  Their first book, The Tivoli Road Baker, was published in 2017.

The savoury follow up book, All Day Baking was published in 2021 and is available in our Sourdough School shop as a signed copy.

Michael has contributed to the content of our BALM Certificate and our Sourdough Club with recipes and video tutorials for our students and members.

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All reasonable care is taken when writing about health aspects of bread, but the information it contains is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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