England

In the Cotswolds and London, you’ll immerse yourself in a week of field-to-oven sourdough bread baking that begins on a 107-acre farm and ends in a city of nine million people. In the Cotswolds, a pre-Roman agricultural region famous for sheep farming, golden-stone architecture and a beautiful landscape, you’ll learn about regenerative wheat farming and stone-ground flour at an eighth generation mill. You’ll also make your own pizzas, eat at pubs and walk around picturesque villages. In London and at the city’s oldest professional baking school, you’ll roll up your sleeves for two all-day, hands-on baking extravaganzas with sourdough expert Elaine Boddy and guest teachers. You’ll make and feed starters and bake sourdough loaves, cookies, scones, focaccia and more, all with the same flours you learned about as seeds in the soil and grains under the stone in the Cotswolds. Milk Street friends will cook us private dinners, and you’ll be set loose on a bakery scavenger hunt across the city.

Trip highlights: Immerse yourself in sourdough bread baking at the world’s oldest baking school, including 1:1 private baking tutorials with Elaine Boddy and Sophie Carey. Get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour and interactive demo at an eighth generation wheat mill in the Cotswolds. Walk the fields at a farm experimenting in regenerative wheat-growing practices. Eat at local gastropubs and explore beautiful, honey-colored stone villages. Learn to make wood-fired pizza with local flours. Dine with friends of Milk Street. Go on a bakery scavenger hunt in London.

Who you’ll travel with: Elaine Boddy

A sample of what you’ll eat and make: Sourdough breads made from local wheats. Contemporary farm-to-table British pub food. Wood-fired pizzas. Hot cross buns. Scones with cream and jam. Two private dinners in London cooked by Milk Street friends.

Per person cost: $7,500 (Single room supplement: $1,250)
Nonrefundable deposit due at booking: $500