Real Bread wins Great Taste Awards

Best in dough. Credit: Canva (logo TM Guild of Fine Food)

Published: Wednesday 31 July 2024

Great Taste Awards have been awarded to 17 bakeries in the Real Bread Campaign supporter network, with stars also going to a further three bakeries that are signed up to The Real Bread Loaf Mark scheme.

Congratulations to them, and to all other bakeries whose Real Bread was judged worthy of one or more stars.

Stars	Company	Product	Note
2	Brook Farm Bakery	Brook Farm Sourdough	Campaign supporter
2	Brook Farm Bakery	Seven Seeded Malthouse Sourdough	Campaign supporter
2	Hobbs House Bakery	Seeded Wild White Sourdough	Campaign supporter
2	Ma Baker	Seeded Rye Sourdough	Campaign supporter
2	The Celtic Bakers	Organic Olive Sourdough	Loaf Mark user
2	The Fat Batard Bakery	Sourdough Chocolate Orange Panettone	Campaign supporter
1	Bake 88	Miso & Sesame Sourdough Bagel	Campaign supporter
1	Brook Farm Bakery	Country Wholewheat and Rye	Campaign supporter
1	Coosh Micro Bakery	Onion Bhaji Sourdough	Campaign supporter
1	Eastsheen Microbakery	Six seed sourdough	Campaign supporter
1	Ed Baker	Sourdough Babka with Chocolate	Campaign supporter
1	Ed Baker	Wholegrain sourdough with Jalapeno and Cheddar	Campaign supporter
1	Gail's Artisan Bakery	Mixed Olive Sourdough	Loaf Mark user
1	Gail's Artisan Bakery	Potato & Rosemary Sourdough	Loaf Mark user
1	Gilda Bakery	Olive sourdough	Campaign supporter
1	Hobbs House Bakery	Wild Buns	Campaign supporter
1	Little Eye Sourdough	Black Olive Bread	Campaign supporter
1	Love That Loaf	The Rye Smile	Campaign supporter
1	More? The Artisan Bakery	Super seedy sourdough toasting loaf	Campaign supporter
1	Speciality Breads	Crumpet Loaf	Loaf Mark user
1	The Bertinet Bakery	Potato, Polenta & Onion Sourdough	Campaign supporter
1	The Bertinet Bakery	Traditional Sourdough	Campaign supporter
1	The Bertinet Bakery	Seven Seeds & Grains Sourdough	Campaign supporter
1	The Culinary Kiwi Bird - Artisan Baker & Chef	Bere Meal Sourdough Boule	Campaign supporter
1	Two Magpies Bakery	Magpie Sourdough	Campaign supporter

Invitation

The Campaign invites all bakeries that make what we call Real Bread to add their details to the Real Bread Map for free. We also urge them (and everyone else - you don't have to be a baker) to JOIN the Real Bread Campaign to enable our charity to keep fighting their corner.

About the awards

The Great Taste Awards are run by The Guild of Fine Food. This year’s awards saw around 500 judges assessing 13,672 entries from nearly 3500 companies, only 1.9% of which received a 3-star award, 10.1% were awarded a 2-star and 28.8% gained a 1-star.

A full list of winners across all categories can be found in the directory on the Guild of Fine Food website.

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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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