num_pages: 259
description: Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive they tell herfeed it daily play it music and learn to bake with it.Lois is no baker but she could use a roommate even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon not only is she eating her own homemade bread shes providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmers market and a whole new world opens up.When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people exactly?
language: English
title: Sourdough
publisher: MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux