Friday, July 26, 2024: … The Front Entrance Of San Francisco’s Downtown, Trader Joe Store. Photo Compliments Of Google Maps.

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…OTHER GOOD INFORMATION ABOUT SOURDOUGH BREADS:

“Old-Style” San Francisco Sourdough Bread Is Discussed By => My Newest Quest. By dmsnyder 10 Oct 2016.
…..”Colombo, Parisian, Larraburu. These bakeries produced the bread that made “San Francisco Sourdough” unarguably the most iconic bread produced in America. They are all gone now, and while San Francisco is still (again?) home to some amazingly delicious sourdough breads, the only place to get that old-style San Francisco Sourdough bread is at the Tadich Grill restaurant. Theirs is especially made by Boudin Bakery and is not available anywhere else.
…The methods used by those old bakeries are documented in the bread science literature. There were studies of the bacteriology of San Francisco Sourdough cultures published in the 1970's while those bakeries were still in business. The bakery formulas and methods were incidentally included in some of these articles. The methods were quite different from those prescribed in currently popular bread baking books which are modeled on French approaches largely, I think. While those certainly produce great bread, they have very different crumb structures and flavor from the San Francisco Sourdoughs of the 1950 to 1975 era, which is what I grew up on and loved.
… I have previously attempted to produce San Francisco-style Sourdough, and, while it made good bread, I have never closely followed the methods described in those articles. It's time I did so.”

Wikipedia Has A Good Overview => History Of California Bread Making.
… For The history of California bread as a prominent factor in the field of bread baking dates from the days of the California Gold Rush around 1849l Click Here.
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ULTIMATELY, By Henry Gurr:
…Henry was able to find & purchase San Francisco area Sourdough Bread Loaves => Trader Joe, Boudin, and Santa Cruz Sourdough, from a local Safeway, Near Santa Cruse.

POST LOG, By Henry Gurr:
…Strange & sad to say, none of the above-mentioned purchased loaves => Had the well-remembered Good distinctive flavor of San Francisco’s Sourdough Bread.
…It is not clear if these bakeries have lost the old-time correct yeast, or if perhaps the current-day customer, by purchase feedback choices, have gradually moved, the customer’s desired flavor away from what Henry Gurr & son David well remember.
…But of the 3 purchased. Trader Joe’s version was the best for Sourdough Flavor, albeit NOT what we had hoped for or our remembered expectation. :-(( ….
FOR MORE GOOD INFORMATION ABOUT SOURDOUGH BREADS: Click Here.

TIME MARCHES ON! …. A DISAPPOINTING NEWS FLASH, By Henry Gurr:
…For this report, Henry Googled … “ Trader Joe Sourdough Bread ”… And near top was this =>
“Did Trader Joe's Discontinue Sourdough Bread?”
…The year 2024 was a rough one for Trader Joe's aficionados, with the chain's popular Patio Potato Chips being discontinued.
…That's to say nothing of the heartbreak when news emerged that TJ's had quietly removed its fan-favorite San Francisco-style sourdough bread from shelves. Written Mar 1, 2025”

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