The Sourdough Argument

Continuity is participation, not preservation. The starter on my counter is three years old. That&rsquo;s what I tell people. It&rsquo;s also not true. None of the original flour is in there. None of the original water. The lactobacilli colonies have turned over hundreds of times. If you sequenced it today and compared it to what I mixed from scratch in 2023, you wouldn&rsquo;t find a match. Every…