Obviously it’s going to be boring, right? Sourdough was awesome, and I didn’t expect it to be. I’m seeing a trend when I read books by Robin Sloan… I went back to check out my review after I read it back in 2015…guess what I wrote? Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Store? You should. It’s unlike anything else I’ve read, and I doubt I’ll read much else like it in the future.Have you read Mr. Maybe it was the miracle of baking, still alive for me/ maybe it was the fact that I’d never produced anything that earned such a visceral reaction before.
Here’s a paragraph where we see her start to make connections between making food and feeling good about it, after the chef at her company’s kitchen asks her to make bread for them: I loved watching Lois’s relationship to food change slowly and completely throughout the novel. Our relationship to food is so fascinating, and I thought this book explored that relationship in a really unique way: with a little magic. As I type up this review, it’s growing and bubbling in my kitchen.
I’ve been wanting to start my own sourdough starter for some time, and after reading this book, I went for it.
She finds camaraderie in a strange gathering of people in an underground farmer’s market of sorts, where science is just as much a part of food as the ingredients are.Īlthough far-fetched at times, Sourdough is a foodie novel unlike any other I’ve read before, and I liked it. Lois’s bread becomes well-loved, and she finds a way to combine both her career and her new love of sourdough baking. The starter creates loaves of bread that seem to have faces in them, and it seems to sing at times. It’s here that the story moves into strange gastronomic territory. They show up at her door and hand her something to keep as a gift: some of their sourdough starter. When the guys who run the restaurant inform her that they’re moving away, she’s not happy. She falls in love with their bread and soup so much that she orders nearly every night, and is soon called their “Number One Eater”. Until, that is, a new restaurant opens up very close to her apartment called Clement Street Soup and Sourdough. She’s been trying Slurry, a sort of nutritional meal-replacement paste, to supplement her diet. She moves from a slow life in Michigan to a world of long days in an office, surviving on quick bites in between work. Our main character is Lois, a young, gifted software programmer who has just moved to California to work at a company that programs robotic arms to do various jobs. Centered around food and baking, it’s also a bit futuristic and strangely magical.
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