54 min

The Perfect Loaf's Maurizio Leo Creative License

    • Food

Maurizio Leo's considered one of the country's top sourdough experts. You'd think that means he's been a professional baker his entire adult life, right? Not so much. The Albuquerque, New Mexico native grew up in his father's Italian restaurant but actually became a software engineer.

Maurizio never stopped baking for fun and started his website The Perfect Loaf a little more than a decade ago, where he’d post sourdough recipes he was trying out in the kitchen. It grew slowly at first, but that little side project became the launching point for countless bakers as they began their sourdough journey - it was for me.

Learn Maurizio's process for developing new recipes, how he grew The Perfect Loaf into a New York Times best-selling cookbook and how a passion has become so much more.

There's something here for everyone - from the expert bread baker to someone who's never heard of a sourdough starter!

-Follow Maurizio on Instagram
-Check out The Perfect Loaf
-Follow Alex on Instagram

Maurizio Leo's considered one of the country's top sourdough experts. You'd think that means he's been a professional baker his entire adult life, right? Not so much. The Albuquerque, New Mexico native grew up in his father's Italian restaurant but actually became a software engineer.

Maurizio never stopped baking for fun and started his website The Perfect Loaf a little more than a decade ago, where he’d post sourdough recipes he was trying out in the kitchen. It grew slowly at first, but that little side project became the launching point for countless bakers as they began their sourdough journey - it was for me.

Learn Maurizio's process for developing new recipes, how he grew The Perfect Loaf into a New York Times best-selling cookbook and how a passion has become so much more.

There's something here for everyone - from the expert bread baker to someone who's never heard of a sourdough starter!

-Follow Maurizio on Instagram
-Check out The Perfect Loaf
-Follow Alex on Instagram

54 min