Make the Best Sourdough of Your Life
Get ready for Baker’s Table Sourdough, the new full-length hardcover cookbook and video course from Chef Dave Willocks. Shipping Fall 2025!
Video Course Preview
Watch an excerpt from the video couse as Chef Dave demonstrates a scoring pattern for batard loaves.
Book Preview
“Food culture in America—with big-box stores and endless seas of throwaway packaging—teaches us to disconnect from the journey our food takes on the way to our plate. We forget that flour is an agricultural product. We forget that our bread was created by a string of people with individual stories, folks who have put in many months of hard work.”
-Chef Dave Willocks
Unlock the Secrets of Artisan Bread at Home
Deep dive into the anatomy of flour, and discover the mysterious power of gluten.
Learn to source better flour by connecting with a community of farmers and millers.
Learn a new method for feeding starter that enables it to last up to two weeks.
Learn professional techniques for mixing, dividing, and shaping.
Understand fermentation, and how to work in harmony with it to make bread rise consistently.
Learn the three day schedule that helps you easily fit sourdough baking into your daily life.
About the Teacher
Chef, baker, and restauranteur, David Willocks, has a diverse culinary career spanning sixteen years across two coasts.
His two time national award-winning Baker’s Table restaurant in Newport, Kentucky has baked every loaf of sourdough in house for seven years to much critical acclaim.
His writing has been published in Authority Magazine and Eater.com, and he has mentored hundreds of students on the journey to better bread.
Common Questions
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Presale orders are expected to ship the first or second week of December—just in time for the holidays!
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Baker’s Table Bread is a full size (8.5X11) hardcover book that was printed by the artisans at Signature Book Printing. It has gorgeous full color photos from Shelby Albertz, fun drawings by Julia Lipovsky, curated educational content, and detailed formulas.
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The Baker’s Table Bread Video Course is a first-of-its-kind culinary companion, which was professionally recorded by the crew at Harris Media Co. It is designed to accompany the book, and make it’s techniques and details come to life in gorgeous full color media. It is 2.5 hrs in length.
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As with all things in life, you get what you put in. The Baker’s Table Sourdough book and video course offer the absolute best guidance we can possible give regarding how to make great sourdough. If you carefully read the book, watch the video course, and implement all of the teachings, there is almost no way your baking won’t improve. If you have questions or comments, you can send them to hello@bakerstablenewport.com Or you can attend one of our Sourdough Zoom Calls and ask Chef Dave your bread question!
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If you read the book and watch the video, and decide that the material isn’t helpful to you, you’re welcome to write to us at hello@bakerstablenewport.com to receive a full refund.
We also suggest gifting the book and video access to someone else who is interested in bread, perhaps it can help them?
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Our bakers make fresh sourdough every Saturday at our Mercantile Shop across the street.
Additionally, our bread arrives at the table every time you dine at the Baker’s Table restaurant.
Click here to book a table.