Artisan bakers are a new generation of bread makers with a passion for baking sophisticated specialty breads of the highest quality. They have returned to making bread in small batches, using their hands to shape the dough and reviving practices that had become a lost art. Artisan bakers use the best flour, often from organically grown wheat that is milled in small mills, and many leaven their bread with sourdough starters, using natural fermentation. Like us, these other artisan bakers are driven by the desire to make better the staff of life and to reeducate the public about how good real bread tastes, and how important the daily ritual of buying bread locally can be more... See more text