Make the Best Sourdough of
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Introducing Baker’s Table Sourdough, the new hardcover book and video course from Chef Dave Willocks.

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Getting started with sourdough can feel totally overwhelming.

Book titled 'Baker's Table Sourdough' by David Willocks, featuring a close-up photo of a sourdough bread on the cover, with additional information about the author and contributors at the bottom.

Baker’s Table Sourdough—from chef David Willocks—makes it simple.

In this new hardcover book and video course you will receive:

  • a consistent and time-tested thirteen step method to make incredible bread.

  • a new approach to starter that enables you to feed it once every two weeks—instead of once every day.

  • a format for making decisions and analyzing your bread to ensure continued progress and improvement.

The Video Course

The Baker’s Table Sourdough video course is a 2.5 hour masterclass that brings all of the details of the sourdough journey to life with technical demonstrations and in-depth insight. The course was produced by the amazing folks at Harris Media Co. and brings you right into the classroom for a hands-on experience in incredible bread baking.

From the Course:

Lesson 12: Score and Bake. ‘The Tiger Claw’

The Video Course is only available with purchase of the book.

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The Hardcover Book

Baker’s Table Sourdough is a 140 page hardcover book, printed by the artisans at Signature Book Printing in MD, and featuring gorgeous color photos from Shelby Odessa and illustrations from Julia Lipovsky. It describes the exact method we use to make sourdough at Baker’s Table, and it explains—in vivid detail—everything the aspiring baker needs to know and understand to unlock the secrets of Artisan bread at home.

Close-up of a loaf of sourdough bread with a crusty top and a flour-dusted surface, resting on a rustic surface. The book cover titled "Baker's Table Sourdough: Unlocking the Secrets of Artisan Bread at Home" by David Willocks, with photography by Shelby Albertz.

From the Book:

“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

Chapter 2: Eat Better Gluten

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Top image shows a person in a blue shirt sifting flour onto a piece of dough on a wooden countertop with a scale, bowl of flour, and metal scraper. Bottom image shows the person folding and shaping the dough on the same countertop. To the right is a page from a bread baking book titled 'Baker's Table Sourdough Method', detailing the step for dividing dough.

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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.

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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

  • Order by December 20th to guarantee shipping before the holidays.

  • Signed copies are available if you purchase the book at the restaurant during your dining experience. Due to volume, we can’t offer signed copies for shipped books.

  • 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.

  • We are working hard on making dehydrated sourdough starter packets to sell in our online store. Stay Tuned!

  • 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.

  • 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 possibly 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!

  • 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?

  • Our bakers make fresh sourdough every Saturday at our Mercantile Shop across the street.

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    Additionally, our bread arrives at the table every time you dine at the Baker’s Table restaurant.

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