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How a Tahoe baker became a sourdough sensation during the pandemic
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Heather Zikas started Tahoe Bread Company out of her garage during the pandemic.Courtesy of Tom Zikas Photography
Midday on a Tuesday and Heather Zikas was cleaning up, among other chores, and also milling some flour, which is a perfectly normal thing to do at the Zikas household in Lake Tahoe.
Zikas is the founder and owner of a bakery service called Tahoe Bread Company. She used to bake sourdough bread in her kitchen oven. She said could make about three loaves at a time, but that wasn’t nearly enough to keep up with demand as word spread about her bread. So about a year ago, just before the pandemic interrupted everything and sent us all home, Zikas, her husband and her father converted half of their garage into a bakery. She got a bigger oven, a cottage bakery license, and a mill. Just in time.