Colombo Sourdough French Bread is one of the country’s original sourdough breads, dating back to its beginning in 1886 in Oakland, CA. Many French baking families came to N. CA in the middle 1800s during the Gold Rush days.
Published: May, 2006
Colombo Sourdough French Bread is one of the country’s original sourdough breads, dating back to its beginning in 1886 in Oakland, CA. Many French baking families came to N. CA in the middle 1800s during the Gold Rush days. They combined their hearth bread-baking skills with a natural wild yeast starter that thrives on the misty air of the Bay Area. The result is unique and cannot be duplicated anywhere else.
Since the Victorian era, the Colombo family has followed and improved upon their bread-making process and, over a century later, is still known as the Bay Area’s finest sourdough bread. Colombo continues its original method of baking. Now, 120 years later, their products are still hand-scored and hearth-baked with slow, even heat. Each loaf requires almost 24 hours of carefully-supervised production time. That’s why their products taste so good and have that distinctive taste that thrives in the misty Bay Area air.
