Pacific Sourdough 
Waldport, OR
www.pacificsourdough.com
For almost 20 years Pacific Sourdough has been a fixture of the Newport Farmers Market selling handmade artisan breads and pastries. Each week Katie McNeil and her husband Mike Smith bake a variety of sourdough breads, sweet yeast breads and sandwich loaves along with crusty baguettes, seeded batards and the very popular herb focaccia. Be sure to come early for the focaccia as it usually sells out by 11! They make all the breads in small batches, by hand, using a slow fermentation process that creates a deep, complex flavor and long keeping quality. There are customer favorites available every week like the much loved Seeded Batard, a football shaped sourdough rolled in sesame, dill and fennel and the Multi-Grain Sourdough made with whole grains and flax seeds. Then there are the new inspirations like this year's Lemon Rosemary Sourdough made with rosemary grown in their garden and conserved lemons that perfume the loaf, perfect to serve with fresh seafood. Baking bread is not their only passion; there is delicious pastry as well. Their tables are loaded with muffins, sticky buns, scones, tarts, cakes, turnovers, and cookies. Among the most popular is a crisp citrus sandwich cookie with a tart lemon filling and its counterpoint, a soft chocolate cookie filled with moka buttercream. The tart varieties are always a reflection of the season with fresh fruits and berries from fellow vendors at the market, some of the sweetest strawberries in June might be paired with a dark chocolate ganache in a toasty hazelnut crust and in the fall fresh plums nestled in almond frangipane and a Rhubarb Upside-down cake with an avid fan base. Always available by the slice or whole is the famous Italian AlmondCake, a rich, buttery torte, perfect with coffee for an afternoon break. Katie is inspired by customer requests, she loves to bake things that people can't buy everywhere or something that they might remember from childhood, that Mom or Grandma used to make. "Delighting people with my baking is what makes me happy, it makes the long hours and early mornings rewarding, I love seeing my customers with smiles on their faces and crumbs on their chins!"
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