Starters and leavens are perhaps the most confusing areas of baking sourdough bread. There is so much information about starters and levain or leaven online, often one set of advice conflicts with another, and it doesn't help that they have so many different names for the same thing. This guide cuts through all the nonsense out there to give you a clear picture of what a starter is and how it relates to levain...
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