Green (Living) Review: On the first day of Christmas, True Loaf was sent to me

New from the Real Bread Campaign this Christmas is one of the most meaningful presents you can give the food lover in your life: gift membership.

Membership of the Real Bread Campaign is a charity gift that keeps on giving. As well as ongoing warm and fuzzy feelings from being part of the nationwide network of like-minded loaf lovers, during the year the recipient will receive four issues of the Campaign’s exclusive members’ magazine True Loaf; and be eligible for an ever-growing number of discounts on bread making courses and more.

Campaign members also have frequent opportunities to win prizes, which in the past year have included bread making classes with loaf luminaries Aidan Chapman at River Cottage, Emmanuel Hadjiandreou at The School of Artisan Food, Dan Lepard at The Cookery School, and Andrew Whitley at Bread Matters. For just £25, your gift is not only to the recipient but also to the only national organisation dedicated to helping to bring Real Bread back to the hearts of our local communities.

If your beloved breadhead is considering starting a baking enterprise, then you can add in a copy of the Campaign’s book Knead to Know, the guide to baking Real Bread for your local community - described by The Sunday Times’ Lucas Hollweg as ‘brilliant’- for £10 (plus £2 p&p).

Membership of the Real Bread Campaign is open to everyone who cares about the state of bread in Britain, full details of which can be found at www.realbreadcampaign.org

The Real Bread Campaign is part of the charity Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming. Funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food programme, the Campaign champions baking loaves as locally as possible without the use of artificial additives or hidden processing aids, and finds ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet.

Current initiatives from the Real Bread Campaign also include:

The Real Bread Loaf Mark: Want to find Real Bread? Then Look for The Loaf Mark! This is the at-a-glance assurance from a baker that a loaf is what the Campaign calls Real Bread.

Lessons in Loaf: helping to bring Real Bread back to the classroom. The FREE guide helps teachers to plan hands-on Real Bread baking sessions for any age, plus lesson plans to tie the topic of bread in with a range of curriculum subjects at Key Stage 2. Workshops for teachers in London and Bristol coming in January.

Real Bread on The Menu: the Campaign’s scheme to encourage more public sector institutions (such as schools, care homes and hospitals) and food access projects (e.g. co-operative buying groups, community cafes, box schemes) around Britain to make Real Bread available.

Bake Your Lawn: A FREE grassroots guide to support teachers and parents help children around Britain to sow a square metre of soil with a handful of wheat in the spring and grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it, to follow the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich on their own doorsteps. Returning in early 2012.

The Real Bread Finder: the only online directory dedicated to helping people find where to buy Real Bread locally. Free for bakers to add, and people to search for, places to buy Real Bread locally.

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