About The Baker's Bulletin

Staff

• Comfort Adeyemi

  Founding Editor

  A bread historian and ancient grains evangelist who can trace the lineage of your einkorn back further than most people can trace their own families. Comfort writes about heritage wheats, traditional lamination techniques, and the deeply theological question of whether ear formation is skill or divine intervention. She firmly believes the global sourdough revival of 2020 was a spiritual awakening disguised as a pandemic hobby.

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  A bread historian and ancient grains evangelist who can trace the lineage of your einkorn back further than most people can trace their own families. Comfort writes about heritage wheats, traditional lamination techniques, and the deeply theological question of whether ear formation is skill or divine intervention. She firmly believes the global sourdough revival of 2020 was a spiritual awakening disguised as a pandemic hobby.

• Dagny Korppoo

  Standards Correspondent

  Finnish ex-pat and 30-year bakery veteran who has seen every trend from ciabatta to cruffins come and go. Dagny writes with the patience of someone who knows your fancy technique was standard in Helsinki in 1987. Her rye columns are canonical. She will not be explaining what autolyse means again.

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  Finnish ex-pat and 30-year bakery veteran who has seen every trend from ciabatta to cruffins come and go. Dagny writes with the patience of someone who knows your fancy technique was standard in Helsinki in 1987. Her rye columns are canonical. She will not be explaining what autolyse means again.

• Declan Oats

  Civic Affairs Desk

  A recovering tech bro who traded his Series A ambitions for a Series A sourdough scoring pattern and never looked back. Declan reviews baking gear, Dutch ovens, and proofing gadgets with the same breathless intensity he once reserved for product launches. His weekly column, 'Crumb Shot or It Didn't Happen,' investigates whether any loaf truly deserves the Instagram hype.

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  A recovering tech bro who traded his Series A ambitions for a Series A sourdough scoring pattern and never looked back. Declan reviews baking gear, Dutch ovens, and proofing gadgets with the same breathless intensity he once reserved for product launches. His weekly column, 'Crumb Shot or It Didn't Happen,' investigates whether any loaf truly deserves the Instagram hype.

• Jessie Crust

  Culture Columnist

  Started a sourdough Instagram in 2020, accidentally became the voice of a generation of pandemic bakers. Jessie asks questions like 'why does everyone hate my crumb?' and 'is my starter dead or just sad?' that somehow expose deep philosophical rifts in the community. Currently on her seventh starter.

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  Started a sourdough Instagram in 2020, accidentally became the voice of a generation of pandemic bakers. Jessie asks questions like 'why does everyone hate my crumb?' and 'is my starter dead or just sad?' that somehow expose deep philosophical rifts in the community. Currently on her seventh starter.

• Malcolm Boule

  Field Reporter

  Professional contrarian who has been banned from three baking forums. Malcolm's beat is questioning everything the bread community holds sacred: open crumb is overrated, Dutch ovens are a crutch, and your scoring is performative. He is, annoyingly, often right.

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  Professional contrarian who has been banned from three baking forums. Malcolm's beat is questioning everything the bread community holds sacred: open crumb is overrated, Dutch ovens are a crutch, and your scoring is performative. He is, annoyingly, often right.

• Miriam Levain

  Letters Editor

  A former microbiologist who left academia after realizing her most meaningful relationship was with a 14-year-old rye starter named Gertrude. Miriam covers fermentation science, hydration ratios, and the quiet drama of bulk fermentation with the precision of a lab report and the passion of a love letter. She has strong opinions about autolyse timing and she is not afraid to use them.

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  A former microbiologist who left academia after realizing her most meaningful relationship was with a 14-year-old rye starter named Gertrude. Miriam covers fermentation science, hydration ratios, and the quiet drama of bulk fermentation with the precision of a lab report and the passion of a love letter. She has strong opinions about autolyse timing and she is not afraid to use them.

• Priya Venkatesh

  Institutional Memory Desk

  Former chemical engineer who left Dow to study gluten networks full-time. Priya's columns come with scatter plots, control groups, and the quiet intensity of someone who has ruined 200 loaves in the name of data. She will not be sharing her feelings about crumb structure — she will be measuring them.

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  Former chemical engineer who left Dow to study gluten networks full-time. Priya's columns come with scatter plots, control groups, and the quiet intensity of someone who has ruined 200 loaves in the name of data. She will not be sharing her feelings about crumb structure — she will be measuring them.

• Renaud Miche

  Weekend Editor

  Fourth-generation boulanger from Lyon who moved to Portland and immediately regretted it. Renaud covers heritage techniques, pre-ferments, and the moral bankruptcy of anyone who uses instant yeast. His columns read like love letters to pain de campagne written by someone who is also furious.

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  Fourth-generation boulanger from Lyon who moved to Portland and immediately regretted it. Renaud covers heritage techniques, pre-ferments, and the moral bankruptcy of anyone who uses instant yeast. His columns read like love letters to pain de campagne written by someone who is also furious.

• Sable Achike

  Public Records Fellow

  Former comedy writer who fell into food journalism after a bit about sourdough naming conventions went viral. Sable covers bread culture — the gear fetishism, the scoring theology, the Instagram aesthetics — with the detached amusement of an anthropologist studying a very floury tribe.

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  Former comedy writer who fell into food journalism after a bit about sourdough naming conventions went viral. Sable covers bread culture — the gear fetishism, the scoring theology, the Instagram aesthetics — with the detached amusement of an anthropologist studying a very floury tribe.

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  Copy Chief

• Tomasz Babka

  Founding Editor

  Polish-American bread historian who traces every loaf back to its Neolithic roots. Tomasz has spent more time in grain archives than most people spend alive. His 4,000-word deep dives on the sociopolitical implications of rye bread are technically optional but spiritually mandatory.

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  Polish-American bread historian who traces every loaf back to its Neolithic roots. Tomasz has spent more time in grain archives than most people spend alive. His 4,000-word deep dives on the sociopolitical implications of rye bread are technically optional but spiritually mandatory.