”Naturally leavened real sourdough bread is the most nutritious & digestible bread that nourishes the gut flora and has many beneficial effects on both body & mind.”
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Hi! I’m Sakis Stamou, a civil engineer who dared to change my career and turned into a chef & alchemist. I am an obsessed sourdough baker & health advocate who dedicated my life to learning & sharing with people about the real craft of cooking that is rooted in traditions.
After spending several years honing my skills as a chef in some of the finest restaurants and studying & learning the therapeutic effects of food from traditional medical systems, I am thrilled to share with you my first online course "Mastering Sourdough Bread".
My intention is to help make you a home sourdough baker, demonstrating every single step of the process to master the craft and create the healthiest bread you will ever have.

Vitalist Healing Cuisine's mission is to inspire & educate people to embrace more mindful & slower cooking methods, to nourish both mind & soul with real food using ancient traditions & to take ownership of their lives to transform physically & spiritually.
Choose Real Food | Choose Life.
- Sakis Stamou, Chef & Alchemist
With this course, you will:
- Prepare, bake and taste the most nutritious, gut-friendly, and naturally leavened sourdough bread.
- Experience a mindful baking process that connects you with your roots.
- Understand why the three essentials flour, water & salt are all that you need to transform into the healthiest & most flavorful bread.
- Advance your baking skills using the most appropriate baking equipment, utensils & tools, that fit your needs and desires.
- Discover everything about the flour, such as the differences between heirloom and modern grain varieties, how to select a unique flour blend that maximizes nutrition & flavor, how to mill & shift your fresh flour, as well as understand all the different commercial types of flour.
- Understand how water & hydration affects the texture & consistency of the bread.
- Acknowledge the importance of salt in the bread, not only as a flavor enhancer but also as an integral part of the fermentation process, the growth & rise of the loaf.
- Know inside out how temperature controls fermentation & increases baking consistency, and acquire some invaluable practical guidance.
- Create your sourdough starter, the most essential element of sourdough bread.
- Connect with yeasts & bacteria, understanding how they interact.
- Learn how to harness the leavening power of wild yeast.
- Develop different sourdough starters using different sources of wild yeast & bacteria.
- Explore all the different parameters affecting the fermentation process of the sourdough starter, such as choice of flour, hydration level, feeding ratio, feeding schedule & temperature.
- Optimize & stabilize the leavening power of your starter.
- Learn how to maintain an active and well-balanced mature sourdough starter, following a regular feeding schedule.
- Learn how to take care of your starter in case you need to hibernate it for short-term or long-term storage.
- Become proficient in the baking process, following a crystal clear blueprint of the entire procedure.
- Overcome any challenges with baking techniques such as folding, shaping, proofing & scoring the dough.
- Create your custom baking schedule based on your needs & your lifestyle.
- Understand the baker's math & the anatomy of a professional baker's recipe.
- Develop your custom recipes using your favorite flour blends.
- Bake a variety of different artisanal sourdough loaves of bread with a lovely open honeycomb crumb structure.
These are the requirements:
- Your excitement to bake the healthiest bread you will ever make.
- Your desire to create a bread with a honeycomb crumb structure, a chewy texture, and a blistered crust.
- Some basic or more advanced baking equipment, kitchen utensils & tools.
This course is for you if:
- You are a beginner or intermediate baker who wants to hone your skills.
- You are passionate about baking and you want to understand what real naturally leavened sourdough bread is.
- You have tried making sourdough bread without success and you want to master it.
- You want to change your eating habits and protect your health by incorporating more nutritious & digestible foods into your diet.
- You are or wanna-be a food educator, professional baker, or chef that knows everything about real sourdough bread.
Below are all the ways you will be guided and supported!

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On-demand high-quality streaming videos.
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Multimedia tools to guide you through the course.

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Intensive theory teachings.
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Step-by-step instructions with syllabus-driven guides.
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Tested recipes with extra notes, tips & expert advice.
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Graphic enhancing guides for multidimensional learning.

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No wasting time researching on websites, videos, blogs, articles, or cookbooks receiving poor guidance from unskilled people.
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Private member community area.
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Access from anywhere, anytime, on the go learning & connection on all devices.
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Learn at your own pace with no stress.

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Full lifetime access.
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Unlimited access to the entire course plus any future upgrades or bonus materials.

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