I lived in the S.F. Bay Area all my life, but I just moved to Illinois, and no one sells sourdough bread. This is killing me. Why is this? I once heard that it's impossible to make sourdough bread in the Midwest. Is that true? --JMIs this original work? -- ZoeIt passes the Google test - it also looks like the legit recipe. --mavCite for ancient sourdough from http://www.sourdo.com/book.htm"the organisms of sourdough that produced man's bread for 5,000 years."--Dr.Ed WoodCite for wheat in ancient egypt from http://teaching.ucdavis.edu/nut120a/0032.htm"G. Regarding cereals-grains1. Wheat and barley were the cereals used most commonly. Indeed, during the Greek and Roman period of Egyptian history, Egypt was the grain producing breadbasket of the ancient Mediterranean. Even today, one may travel westward from Alexandria along the coast towards Libya, and in springtime, see the hundreds of ancient mounds that represent ruined villages where cultivators were housed; the irrigation system, cisterns are still in place and today, some of these are used by settled Bedouins. '--Darrell