[captioning sponsored by viewers like you] these breads are made by one of the most famous bakeries in the san francisco area, the acme bakery. and they supply the breads for chez panisse alice waters famous restaurant. and what s so special about them, steve? it s sort of unique in that it s built, unlike most yeast breads over a period of stages in three different starters starting from a little piece of old dough. and you start out with about this much. julia: good, well let s start in on it. steve: okay, so we ve got a little piece of dough which has fermented for quite a while. we chop it up into little bits. this piece will go about the size of a small walnut. yeah, or a large cherry. mm-hmm. and then we re going to use just under a quarter-cup of fairly warm water. sort of blood temperature. so we ve added just under a quarter cup of water and then we re going to add a little flour. it s a good idea, i think, for anyone if they re going to go into pastry and bread mak