The Puratos Sourdough Library

The Sourdough Library was founded in October 2013 in Saint-Vith, Belgium[1] and is the only facility in the world dedicated to housing sourdough cultures.[2] The library is housed at the Puratos Center for Bread Flavour[3] and is a place to conserve and promote sourdoughs from around the world, to conduct research and to ensure the survival of the various strains for future use.[4] They currently have over 900 strains of wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria recorded.[5] Every new sample that arrives at the library is checked and analyzed in the laboratory run by Professor Marco Gobbetti.[6] The library is a not-for profit initiative from Puratos and has 108 sourdoughs including 12 from the United States.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Inside the World's Only Sourdough Library". Atlas Obscura. 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  2. "Puratos Canada inducts Canada's first sourdough culture into its one-of-a-kind sourdough library". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  3. "Center for Bread Flavour".
  4. MEDIA, CNS. "Puratos Opens World's First Sourdough Library". foodingredientsfirst.com/. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  5. "Puratos sourdough library inducts first Canadian sourdough | bake | baking news". Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  6. "The Puratos World Heritage Sourdough Library | The Quest for Sourdough". Quest for sourdough. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  7. "Puratos nearly doubles its sourdough library". Retrieved 2018-07-09.

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