#273 Small Changes to Make Better Bread with Karen O’Donoghue
13th Nov 2024
Karen O’Donoghue is a champion for not only better bread, but also better food quality, choices and better growing methods.
We originally recorded this session in the studio as a recipe to be cut down and edited for YouTube. But when I watched it back I thought that this could easily be a podcast episode. The way Karen breaks down in simple terms the benefits of processes like soaking to maximise the accessibility of nutrients in the flour, is perfect for a long form listen.
You can watch the full episode on YouTube if you’re interested in how this recipe turned out, but I think you’ll be able to imagine just how good it looked, smelt and tasted from our descriptions alone.
Karen and her company, Happy Tummy Co inform people about the need to spend more on health by spending more on better quality food, invest in the soil and re-engage with the food supply. You can check out Karen’s bread, recipes and idyllic bakery in Ireland at www.thehappytummyco.com PLUS, we cook up a bunch of different bread recipes on our YouTube channel, just search 'Karen' on The Doctor’s Kitchen to find the videos.
Episode guests
Karen O’ Donoghue is the Founder of The Happy Tummy Co.which she established in Hackney, East London back in early 2014.nHaving suffered with chronic IBS symptoms since childhood it was in 2013 that Karen cleared up her symptoms for good through applying 2 years of scientific research on how our gut bacteria like to eat to fermented bread recipes.nFrom her bakery in Hackney Karen sent this unique, gut friendly bread throughout the UK and Ireland to help others eradicate themselves of their IBS symptoms too. It quickly became known as “the magic poo bread”.nAn activist for fibre, real bread, connecting with the land and teff Karen has now moved to East Sussex where she has opened a bakery school deep in the countryside surrounded by farmland, herds of cattle and sheep and nighttime hedgehogs.nHer mission to re-establish connection with the earth and our hands is paramount in her mission to eradicate people of their IBS symptoms.nKaren currently hosts one day intensive courses at the bakery school but has big plans to expand these courses into longer, more wide reaching courses as well as festivals in 2020.
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