Our Sourdough Story.

At our Cypriot bakery we specialise in sourdough bread. Read our blog to follow our sourdough journey of how a fascination turned into the dream bakery. 

How it began. 

Our founder here at Honest Bread, George, was driven by passion and curiosity for sourdough back in 2015, where he began baking his own as a hobby. This slowly evolved into a fascination and love for sourdough. To learn more about this unique bread he read books, attended master classes, travelled and tasted bakeries all around the world. 

Sourdough schooling. 

A lot of people are unaware that there are many wonders of sourdough. From the thorough baking process to the various health benefits. 

During his research and venture into all things sourdough, George educated himself and learnt a lot about this bread. Starting off with the benefit sourdough bread can have on the digestive system. It’s been proven in studies to act as a prebiotic. This means that the fibre in the bread helps feed the “good” bacteria in your intestines, this bacteria is important for maintaining a stable, healthy digestive system. 

As well as this, sourdough undergoes a slow fermentation process. Compared to many other types of bread, the way sourdough is fermented in our Cypriot bakery, results in the depletion of bad starches. It also breaks down protein, including gluten, making sourdough easy to digest, reducing the risk of high blood sugar and resulting in less bloating and irritation upon eating it.  

The next step.

After learning everything there is to know about sourdough bread inside out, George was motivated to create his own lab of sourdough fermentation here in Cyprus, Nicosia. Starting off as a one man show in a 40 sqm kitchen. For a year and a half friends and family were called in to help him through these countless hours, ongoing trials and errors and sleepless nights, but the appreciation and passion for sourdough never once faded. 

His love for sourdough, turned into the Honest Bread bakery we now all know and love. With delicious artisan bread reaching the many mouths of Cyprus, treating their taste buds and senses with enhanced flavours and mouth watering smells.  

Don’t just believe us, try our sourdough for yourself and fall in love with it the same way we have here at Honest Bread.

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