{"product_id":"2026-06-06-start-with-sourdough-a-hands-on-class-with-chef-tanya-matta","title":"2026-06-06 Start with Sourdough: A Hands-On Class with Chef Tanya Matta","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"StructuredModuleRenderer_structuredContent__k7mNB StructuredModuleRenderer_text__GaXOv\" data-testid=\"text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearn sourdough from scratch with Chef Tanya Matta — starter care, shaping, baking \u0026amp; more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"StructuredModuleRenderer_structuredContent__k7mNB StructuredModuleRenderer_text__GaXOv\" data-testid=\"text-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you're a total beginner or a curious home baker, this intimate Coastal Table and Tales sourdough hands-on workshop will give you the confidence, knowledge, and tools to bake stunning sourdough bread at home — led by one of the South's most accomplished pastry chefs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT CHEF TANYA MATTA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChef Tanya Matta has spent 20+ years mastering pastry and bread across fine dining, luxury resorts, and bakery ownership — from the Ritz-Carlton and Gramercy Tavern to co-founding DaisyCakes, a beloved Savannah bakery that started in a vintage Airstream. Most recently Executive Pastry Chef at the JW Marriott Plant Riverside District, Tanya is joining Palmetto Bluff this June to lead their pastry program. She's passionate about bringing her love of bread to the community — and this class is a perfect example of that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT WE'LL COVER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaring for your starter — feeding, troubleshooting and long-term preservation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScaling your starter to any quantity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreative ways to use discard (zero waste!)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow flour types affect your bread\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDough prep, folding and shaping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBudget-friendly ways to turn your home oven into a baking powerhouse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne recipe with variations included. Note: This class focuses on one sourdough method.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eWHAT HAPPENS IN CLASS\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe'll bake two loaves together in class (ready to bake when we start — about 50 minutes in the oven). You'll also get hands-on with pre-prepared dough: folding, shaping, and loading it into your own banneton basket to take home and bake fresh the next day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe close with an open Q\u0026amp;A — ask anything about sourdough, troubleshooting, or what we covered in class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEVERYONE TAKES HOME\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e• A portion of Chef Tanya's \"mother\" starter (years in the making)\u003cbr\u003e• A banneton proofing basket\u003cbr\u003e• A bread lame (scoring tool)\u003cbr\u003e• Recipes, a baking timeline and detailed instructions\u003cbr\u003e• Shaped dough, ready to bake at home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINCLUDED WITH YOUR TICKET\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eItems in \"Everyone Takes Home,\" plus fresh-baked sourdough, butter, jam, Maldon salt, coffee and juice — to enjoy during class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Coastal Table and Tales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45224515862637,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/3121\/8029\/files\/anshu-a-E5xgkSFan84-unsplash.jpg?v=1779567219","url":"https:\/\/www.coastaltableandtalessavannah.com\/products\/2026-06-06-start-with-sourdough-a-hands-on-class-with-chef-tanya-matta","provider":"Coastal Table and Tales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}