BONUS EPISODE: Make Better Bread with Karen O’Donoghue
5th May 2024
Karen O’Donoghue is a champion for not only better bread, but also better food quality, choices and better growing methods.
You can hear the passion in Karen’s message and I love her commitment to the craft of sourcing, fermenting and baking. She’s a force, and I love her energy. I think you will too.
Soaking and sprouting is clearly something Karen believes we should be doing more of. And if I think back to traditional methods of cooking in my families kitchen, these vital steps are things that we wouldn’t have skipped.
Soaking peas, nuts and seeds. Combining specific spices and herbs with them. This is an artform that increases the nutritional value of our food, but is rapidly being lost as we move toward more convenience and speed. Something that I realise I’m guilty of myself in todays podcast.
Karen and her company, Happy Tummy Co inform people about the need to spend more on health, invest in the soil and re-engage with the food supply. I love the message and the enthusiasm. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear the hard truths presented in an unforgiving way, I think sometimes it’s important to hear the message in it’s raw form.
You can check out Karen’s bread, recipes and idyllic bakery in Ireland at www.thehappytummyco.com PLUS, we cooked up her scones and an incredible Teff porridge in the studio that you can find on YouTube.
Episode guests
Karen O’ Donoghue is the Founder of The Happy Tummy Co.which she established in Hackney, East London back in early 2014.nHaving suffered with chronic IBS symptoms since childhood it was in 2013 that Karen cleared up her symptoms for good through applying 2 years of scientific research on how our gut bacteria like to eat to fermented bread recipes.nFrom her bakery in Hackney Karen sent this unique, gut friendly bread throughout the UK and Ireland to help others eradicate themselves of their IBS symptoms too. It quickly became known as “the magic poo bread”.nAn activist for fibre, real bread, connecting with the land and teff Karen has now moved to East Sussex where she has opened a bakery school deep in the countryside surrounded by farmland, herds of cattle and sheep and nighttime hedgehogs.nHer mission to re-establish connection with the earth and our hands is paramount in her mission to eradicate people of their IBS symptoms.nKaren currently hosts one day intensive courses at the bakery school but has big plans to expand these courses into longer, more wide reaching courses as well as festivals in 2020.
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