7 June 2022
This is the weekly newsletter from Loaf in Stirchley, keeping you abreast of our bakery and cookery school and other things we think youâll be interested in.
This week weâve moved to a new delivery company for our newsletter, which is why it looks a bit different!
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We have plenty of bread and pastries on the shelves all day, with lunches served from noon on weekdays. Scroll to the bottom for this weekâs lunch menu.
Our opening hours are:
Wednesday: 12-4
Thursday: 12-6
Friday: 12-6
Saturday: 8-1
đ„ Happy 10th birthday to Leeds Bread Co-op! Their development as a co-op over the years has been quite inspiring to us and we look forward to visiting again soon.
đ„ Check out whatâs on at Artefact this week: Sludge, dystopian books, singing group, board games, and open mic poetry, all at your local artist-run cafe/bar.
đ„ StĂ©phane Ravacley, the âhumanist bakerâ caught our eye in reports from the French parliamentary elections. Nice to see a fellow dough-slinger making a difference.
If youâve got some Stirchley news to share, or have seen something interesting online about bread or co-ops, let us know!
Youâll have noticed the newsletter looks a little different this week. Weâve long wanted to move away from Mailchimp, partly because of the cost but also because of the privacy implications.
Mailchimp are probably the biggest service for business newsletters and offer a host of tracking tools to see what your customers do. With some caveats, we can see when you open the email, which links you click on and on what device. Weâre not interested in any of this so it seems silly to allow a giant company to gather this kind of granular information about your behaviour.
So weâve moved everything over to Buttondown, a small independent company that exists purely to send emails to people. No tracking, no data gathering, just getting emails into your inboxes, and at about half the cost.
Weâre still feeling our way around and itâll take a while to get the look and feel right, but itâs good to be off at least one tech behemoth.
Itâs only a month until CoCoMad, the big community festival in Cotteridge Park, and the programme is back from the printers. This year itâs a tabloid newspaper chock full of articles and activities, beautifully illustrated by Edie Woolf and designed with care by Kerry Leslie.
Weâll have copies on the bakery counter this week (while stocks last) and you can read it on your computer here. Kerry says sheâd like to make it a regular thing with more articles next year so if youâre interested, get in touch!
This weekâs sourdough pizza is artichoke, olive, caper, tomato, basil and buffalo mozzarella (V) on sale Wed to Fri.
The soup pot will be serving the following:
Wed: Tarka daal curry (Ve) + sourdough bread.
Fri: New potato, spinach and coconut curry (Ve) + sourdough bread.
Thursdayâs focaccia sandwich is spiced hummus, grilled asparagus, lemon zest, toasted pine nuts, cherry tomatoes and spinach (Ve) with optional feta (V).
Salt beef on challah is on sale on Friday.
Topped focaccia with cheese and surprise toppings is available on Saturday (V).
Savoury snacks include our famous sausage rolls and vegetable rolls, available all week, plus ham & cheese and pesto & cheese croissants Wednesday through Friday.
Lunches are made fresh every day for 12 noon.
Our menu for the week â with ingredients and allergens â is on the website.
All our classes are fully booked through the summer. Thanks for all your interest!
Dates for classes in the autumn will be released in July. You can sign up to alert lists for specific classes here.
Thanks for all your continued support. See you next week!
Team Loaf: Nancy, Martha, Dorit, Rach, Sarah, Neil, Molly & Pete