How does it feel to eat something over 3,000 years old? Whenever we have bread and beer, we are touching upon some foundational foods dating back to the start (perhaps even a significant cause) of civilization. Their ingredients are nearly identical, and you can use one to make the other.

Biga

So when your house fills with the aroma of homemade bread you are touching back through thousands of years of advancement, all united by a common fuel to drive the body to achieve.

The Rise

Today, bread made from 80% biga. With oh so many praises to Ken Forkish

Secret ingredient: that massive preferment that yielded a bread so spongy that it bounces.

History