The Standard Staff

Joe vs. Sourdough: Which will last longer, the president or this loaf of Boudin bread?

Politics

Calls for the incumbent to step aside are only growing louder, so we ask: Can the president outlast this loaf of San Francisco sourdough?

Senior News Reporter

George Kelly

San Francisco bakery, famous for $18 purple bread, broken into and ransacked overnight

News

Food & Drink

A San Francisco bakery famous for $18 purple sourdough bread was ransacked in an overnight burglary that the owner says will cost him tens of thousands of dollars to put right.

Sarah Holtz

New SF bakery aims to perfect the $10 sandwich

Culture

Balancing rising operating costs and an unpredictable harvest, Xan Devoss aims to keep selling a $10 sandwich. 

A $12 loaf of sourdough? Blame rising flour prices—and the cost of quality assurance

Inflation and the war in Ukraine have drastically increased the cost of organic flour, and this San Francisco baker is feeling the reverberations.