True Loaf magazine issue 62 out now

Hoi Li at Haxby Bakehouse. Copyright: Tessa Bunney

Published: Saturday 5 April 2025

Features in this issue:

Securing your Campaign’s future: Chris Young outlines changes we’re making and why.
Can flour power change the world? Campaign ambassador Camila MarciÌas is on a heritage and whole grain journey of discovery.
Farm, mill, bake: photos by Tessa Bunney of farmers, millers and bakers in Yorkshire, from a project commissioned by Ryedale Folk Museum.
Dough on the road: In 2024, Mariko Kondo set out on a journey of discovery.
Bread centre: Kirsten Foster caught up with Real Bread Campaign ambassador Neil Holland in the English midlands.
Making time for bread: Homebaker Martin Glover on how he integrates bread making into his working day.
Chef in the classroom: Joe Grollman is a teaching chef at Charlton Manor School in south east London.

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Chris Young
Campaign Coordinator
Real Bread Campaign

Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws; he created and runs Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise promoting therapeutic/social benefits and bread making; the No Loaf Lost surplus reduction initiative; as well as Lessons in Loaf and Bake Your Lawn for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook and Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated the London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship.

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