Regenerative Baking

Dressler Parsons
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Dressler Parsons, a pastry cook, enlists the help of food, farming, and sustainability experts to design a climate-friendly bakery of the future.

  1. JAN 13

    Regenerative Baking #26: Jim Franks on "Existential Bread"

    Jim Franks has traveled the world studying whole grain sourdough bread and local food infrastructure centered around ethical and regenerative ingredients. He's also a poet, and last year he released his book Existential Bread, which is completely unlike any cookbook I’ve ever read before, for two reasons. First, it’s written as a long poem. Second, it’s completely non-prescriptive. Instead of telling you exactly how to make bread or giving you a precise recipe, he explains the different factors behind bread-making and invites you to experiment and trust yourself. Tune in for a philosophical discussion of alternative economies, breaking the rules of bread, and why bread could save the world.   Full show notes and further reading links available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking Instagram: @regenerativebaking and @dresslerparsons Patreon: patreon.com/regenerativebaking

    46 min

  2. 11/04/2025

    Regenerative Baking #25: Don Guerra of Barrio Bread

    Today’s guest is community-supported baker Don Guerra, founder of Barrio Bread in Tucson, Arizona. He won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker in 2022, and takes pride in bringing together a network of farmers, millers, wholesale buyers and consumers to support each other and build a resilient and diverse local grain chain. Listen in for an interview jam-packed with information about heritage grains of the Southwest, Don’s journey with entrepreneurship and history with anthropology, how he got connected with Native Seeds Search and became a major part of the effort to bring back Sonoran White Wheat, and much much more.   Full show notes and further reading links available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking Instagram: @regenerativebaking and @dresslerparsons Patreon: patreon.com/regenerativebaking

    51 min

  3. 10/21/2025

    Regenerative Baking #24: Amy Smith of Native Seeds/SEARCH

    What is a seed bank if not both the original economy AND a model for a regenerative economy? The seeds are saved, shared with farmers and gardeners, and then as the crops grow, a portion of those seeds also get saved and re-circulated. In this week's episode, Dressler is joined by Amy Smith, the E-Commerce Manager of Native Seeds/SEARCH in Tucson, Arizona.  Native Seeds/SEARCH was founded in 1983 in response to the concern of farmers, gardeners, Indigenous community members, and conservationists about the loss of seed diversity. They currently steward more than 1800 regional seed varieties in a climate-controlled seed bank, all of which are uniquely adapted to the arid landscapes that extend from southern Colorado to central Mexico. Tune in for a discussion about Southwest agriculture, harvesting mesquite pods, the importance of arid-adapted seeds as the climate warms, the resurgence of Sonoran White Wheat, and so much more.   Full show notes and further reading links available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking Patreon ($5 tier: get a brand new watercolor-illustrated postcard every month!): patreon.com/regenerativebaking Instagram: @regenerativebaking and @dresslerparsons

    41 min

  4. 10/07/2025

    Regenerative Baking #23: Telly Justice of HAGS

    Could a fine dining restaurant be a place to feel at home, to eat for free? Telly Justice, head chef and co-owner of HAGS, says absolutely. Centering queerness in every corner of the restaurant and subsidizing a weekly pay-what-you-can brunch via a vibrant tasting menu the rest of the week, Telly and the rest of the HAGS team have created something remarkable in Lower Manhattan. Tune in for a chat about the freedom of pop-ups, burnout in restaurant kitchens, building a completely different kind of fine dining space, how the HAGS team collaborates on the menu, and so much more.   Full show notes and further reading links available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking Instagram: @regenerativebaking and @dresslerparsons Patreon: patreon.com/regenerativebaking

    40 min

  5. 09/23/2025

    Regenerative Baking #22: Caroline Woolard on Barter Networks and The Solidarity Economy

    How can the scaffolding and infrastructure of our world be repurposed to build a better future? How can social practice art open avenues for collaboration and and cooperation? This episode features an interview with Caroline Woolard, an artist, educator and technologist who's currently the Head of Strategy at Pollinator.coop. We discuss her past and current projects, all of which focus on building networks between people in one way or another, glimpsing alternative economies.  Full show notes and further reading links available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking Instagram: @regenerativebaking and @dresslerparsons Patreon: patreon.com/regenerativebaking

    45 min

  6. 09/09/2025

    Regenerative Baking #21: Raeghn Draper of CHAAD

    We're kicking off Season 3 of Regenerative Baking with Raeghn Draper, the executive director of CHAAD (Chicago Hospitality Accountability and Advocacy Database), an organization providing resources and information to restaurant workers, as well as, in Raeghn's words, imagining a hospitality industry that supports thriving and sustainable lives for the people who put in the bulk of the labor. Tune in for a discussion that clearly illustrates the current hospitality industry, as well as bright and expansive future possibilities.   Full show notes and further reading links available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking Instagram: @regenerativebaking and @dresslerparsons Patreon: patreon.com/regenerativebaking

    35 min

  7. 05/06/2025

    Regenerative Baking #20: Season 2 Summary

    We're back with another thematically-organized summary of Regenerative Baking's last nine episodes, as told via clips of guests that felt like they were in conversation with each other. This season’s theme was, “What does it look like to bake with place in mind?”, and the clips in this summary cover the concept of “place” from every angle: from being involved with your local community, to making desserts on a glacier in Alaska, to the effects of gentrification and colonization on food cultures, to yourself and your own food memories as "place," and how that connects you to the food system around you, and much, much more.   Full show notes and further reading links (for each excerpted episode) available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking Instagram: @regenerativebaking and @dresslerparsons

    1h 42m

  8. 11/26/2024

    Regenerative Baking #19: Patrick Shaw-Kitch of Brooklyn Granary and Mill

    Patrick Shaw-Kitch was the head baker at Blue Hill at Stone Barns for five years, and is now opening Brooklyn Granary and Mill (@brooklyngranaryandmill), a flour mill and bakery in Brooklyn that will source grain directly from regenerative farmers, and sell bread, pastries, and fresh-milled flour to customers. In this very bread-nerdy episode, Patrick and Dressler dig into the nitty-gritty hows and whys of whole grain bread baking, independent seed breeders, the best ways to test out new flours, which grains are destined to be bread, Patrick's business model and goals for Brooklyn Granary and Mill, the economics of regional grains, and so, so much more.    Full show notes and further reading links available at dresslerparsons.com/regenerativebaking Instagram: @regenerativebaking and @dresslerparsons Patreon: patreon.com/regenerativebaking

    37 min
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Dressler Parsons, a pastry cook, enlists the help of food, farming, and sustainability experts to design a climate-friendly bakery of the future.

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  • Creator
    Dressler Parsons
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2023 Regenerative Baking
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