Susan Van Slooten – Biography

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Updated on March 5, 2013
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Susan Van Slooten: Bread-Baking Instructor and Sustainable Food

Name: Susan (Sue) Van Slooten

Resides in:  Lombardy, ON, Canada. It’s near Rideau Ferry.  Where’s that?  Directly on the Rideau Canal system, UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Occupation:  Bread-baking instructor, editor, student, artist.  Teaches sweet and savoury yeast breads, sourdough, batter breads. To meet this end, she started Bread! last fall, a small business with big hopes.  Motto:  Bread!  It’s great food!

How to find her:  Go to Sue’s website, where you can see the Bread! website and listen to the podcasts on bread. You can also follow her on MOTHER EARTH NEWS through her blog, Homemade Bread and Cooking Skills.

Interests and Fun Facts:  All issues surrounding food, sustainability, being green, animals, knitting, painting, Celtic music. Issues that are particularly interesting concern food and  its sustainability, food justice and security, reclaiming lost food skills and teaching kids to cook, such as baking bread baking scratch. Sue believes that cast iron cooking implements deserve more popularity. The growing, sustaining, procuring, cooking and preparing, not to mention the consuming, of food is of prime enjoyment. She is also the editor for “Driftwords,” a newsletter for the Big Rideau Lake Association. (not food-related, Sue would love to get another horse.)

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