Hannah Bironzo's Sourdough and Kitchen Stories Cookery Workshops

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Hannah Bironzo's Sourdough and Kitchen Stories Cookery Workshops

I run popular sourdough workshops in small groups over Zoom. I teach how to bake delicious, natural bread, from scratch, from the comfort of your own kitchen.

I also run cookery workshops with chef collaborators offering a wide range of enticing dishes!

15/10/2026

BONJOUR!! Something a little different from me! Fancy learning to make Italian focaccia with me, in person, IN FRENCH 🇫🇷 (all levels welcome!) at in Jericho, Oxford on Saturday 12 December in the afternoon?

£45 for the class. Only eight spaces! Further details at . I will teach in French; story tell; you will learn the sourdough method and get your hands stuck into bowls of dough. You will get creative and decorate your focaccia with Mediterranean ingredients and go home with a tray of deliciousness to bake at home.

🇫🇷J’ai super hâte de faire votre connaissance et de préparer une délicieuse focaccia ensemble! Ça va être un moment magique et gourmand. C’est parti ! ✨🫓

03/10/2026

October Sourdough Workshop - done! 🍂 🍞🧡👏

Such a gorgeous group of bakers gathered for my three-day online sourdough workshop this week. It’s like a wheat🌾-retreat which you join from home 🏠

I post out my beloved sourdough starter and we meet on Thursday evening to feed and learn all about starter. On Friday night we mix dough by hand and stretch and fold. On Saturday morning we shape our loaves and we bake bread in time for lunch! We learn together in real time, working with nature and fermentation.

Just check out our happy faces. I am proud of all of my bakers and just so excited that they now have this amazing skill for life.

I always say, my sourdough workshop offers the foundations. It’s a bit like me handing them a new musical instrument and by the end of the weekend they can play it with confidence and in tune. Now they can begin to experiment and do their ‘jazz improvisation’ 🎶 in their own kitchens!

I can’t wait to hear how they get on. Sourdough is a life-long love story 🧡 and one that connects you to nature, to your own body, to others and to your community. It’s just the best!

During my workshop today I communicated with the incredible Dr. Vanessa Kimbell - the absolute sourdough Queen 👸🏽- as we were talking about her newly launched . I feel excited about what might grow 🌱 from our conversations and shared love of sourdough.

Life is like a wild meadow my friends! Trust the process, nurture the soil and stay open to learning opportunities 🧡

Now it’s time to sink my teeth into my freshly baked bread 🍞 🧈 and think of my lovely workshop bakers doing the same at their kitchen tables. Buon appetito 😋

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11/09/2026

You know that feeling, when you are lying in bed after a long day…limbs finally relaxing….about to drift off to glorious sleep and then, ‼️ 🚨 you remember you have a bowl of dough on the counter top, risking an overnight overspill and she’s calling your name in a knead-y (sorry) fashion. 😭

All said dough kneads (again, sorry) is a swift transfer to the fridge. ((Side point: I love my fridge as much as my dough. In fact, I purchased my lovely fridge with the money I earned during my first round of pandemic sourdough workshops! I earned my crust, as they say))

Anyway, back to midnight dough matters 😩 My husband was still up so I asked him to sort it. He obediently saw to it. Thanks husband 👏 This is wedding vow stuff.

This morning I came downstairs and was greeted to my dough, sat patiently on that fridge shelf, nicely proving in sleep mode (just like me overnight) and….looking all chic in her sweet gift wrapping!! 🎁

Reader, I tend to use a hotel shower-cap on my bowls whilst they prove and because I loath single use plastics, will make it last a lifetime until it’s slack and threadbare! Mine has now lost her elastic (I empathise) and I have been making do.

My husband at midnight found a piece of string and tied a bow to secure her.

This morning my heart sang a little. She looked so beautiful! 🥹 😂

A story of care, surprise and delight and why it’s good to ask for help when you are about to fall asleep.

Now to get that dough in the oven, if I can bear to prise off that sweet gift-wrap!

02/09/2026

Hello September! A shift in light, a refocus, a welcoming back of routines and….

Fancy learning a new skill which will nourish you and yours through this new season and beyond?

I have a couple of spaces left on my forthcoming sourdough workshop. I teach online so we connect in our home kitchens. My workshop is designed to fit around busy lives and I make it feel fun and straightforward!

Next workshop dates: Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 October 🍂

We meet on a Thursday evening to learn about our sourdough starter (which I share with you). We meet on Friday evening to mix our dough by hand. We meet on Saturday morning to shape our dough and we bake bread in time for lunch!

By the end of the workshop weekend, you have all the know-how to make your own loaves forever more! The process is grounding, calming and creative. The end results are irresistible.

You will get hooked on a good thing! DM me for details 🙂 I would love to bake bread with you 🧡

27/08/2026

Meet Hannah (that would be me, squinting and beaming in the pink) and Hannah (smiling radiantly on the left). Round my house tonight.🥂

I baked a sourdough and we dunked it in dips, stuffed olives in our gobs and sipped white wine…all whilst CHATTING like old friends. it was lovely.

Here’s the thing:

* We are both married to Italian blokes.

* Both blokes are from Turin/Torino, Italy.

* I lived in Turin, many moons ago.

* Hannah now lives in Turin.

I saw her funny comedy sketches on IG last summer and idly dropped her a note to say “Hi! You make me laugh! I am called Hannah too and I used to live in Turin.”

Hannah replied and asked where I now live.

I replied “Oxford”.

She replied “I grew up near Oxford”

I said: “same!”

We switched to DMs.

Turns out we are both from Wantage, Oxfordshire.
We are both called Hannah.
We are the same frickin age.
We are both very connected to Turin.
We both have two kids: a lad and a lass.

Tonight, my friends, over our in-person catch up, I asked where in Wantage she grew up.

Turns out she lived on the VERY NEXT STREET to mine 😮 honestly, I could lob a small pebble from my childhood home doorstep and it would neatly land on hers. Yet, we NEVER met on home turf. It’s maddening and rather bizarre! 🤯

So a recap: Two girls, practically neighbours, meet decades later on instagram. I guess the algorithm spookily knew 😳 Honestly, my mind is blown and I am sad we didn’t connect as teens (we would have had fun!) So much in common!! Two women, two countries, two paths trodden - at times the same path - rather a lot of synchronicity ✨

It’s simple. Talk to your neighbours, people! Glad we found one another now though 😉 (I guess this is your internet good news story of the day).

Next time the two Hannahs should meet in Turin! Will update when we do! 🇮🇹

24/08/2026

A year ago today, I was bumbling along on the Oxford Tube to see the almighty RAYE 🇬🇧🇨🇭🇬🇭 perform at All Points East. I had a lovely feeling about my day ahead and afforded myself a little daydream after a busy few summer weeks. I recall watching the world go by my window, musing about The Gypsy Baker and and baking projects for the autumn 🍂 then who do I spot sat right by me? It was Kitty Tait ! Mega pinch me moment. I mouthed OMG to my husband and he knew I would do what I do best…connect with this fabulous baking queen and talk DOUGH! And we did just that, at Shepherd’s Bush and all the way down the street!

She’s a soul sister for sure. I so wish we could have stopped in a cafe to keep on talking but we were both hurrying - Kitty had a rucksack FULL of flour and was heading to Hackney to teach a breaducating.britain workshop. Of course!

Kitty needs little intro but for those who don’t know, she’s an inspiring girl with an incredible story. I often talk about her on my sourdough workshop. Anyone who doesn’t know her, look her up and read about her Orange Bakery 🧡 founding story. From very fragile teen mental health to community baking on a big scale. Heart, mind and soul connecting - Bread saved Kitty and she has soared ever since. What a star. 🌟

Kitty, if you are reading, I am still hoping we get to have a cuppa and a bun together sometime!

Friends, this is your sign to always look up on your bus ride; you never know who could be travelling alongside you!

18/07/2026

The summer holidays are here and “multitaskable snacks” are BACK!

My 11 year old’s genius invention and frankly brilliant branding from a few summers ago.

It’s very simple.

Get a muffin/cup cake tin. Fill each round section with snacks you find about the kitchen. Eat whilst watching the telly 📺 oh and it’s 💯 made by kids, only. Don’t get involved. Don’t judge. Let it happen.

This is multitaskable snacks. 💪

17/07/2026

Reflections on….lasts. And all the emotions.

This week has been filled with gratitude, community, love and also some quiet weeping (me!) as our little family closes our chapter on Primary School. And what a school ♥️🥹🌸

Simultaneously feeling grief and heart soaring joy.
Gratitude and nerves.
Gently holding on and letting go.

Reminding ourselves that every ending is followed by a new beginning ✨

But first: bread. I turned my oven on early today. The hum of the hearth accompanied my whizzing thoughts and we will gift a loaf to a special soul 🍃 of course, it’s our language, round here.

Love, light and loaves continue.

I did ask my secondary school boy if he wanted to gift a loaf to his tutor and I just got a stare back 😳!!! Ça change!

Look after each other beautiful ones…bigs and smalls…and good luck with all of it ###

24/06/2026

Just a few bottles left of our botanical vinegar drink with a kick! 🔥 Call her fire c***r…. Call her Vesta. Named after the Roman Goddess of Hearth and Fire. She contains apple c***r vinegar, garlic, onion, ginger, chilli, lemon peel, tumeric, black pepper, rosemary, thyme and honey. Fermented for a month. She’s quite something! Stirred into warm water for a cosy cup…dashed into ice and a sparkling tipple for a summer, feelgood treat or mix into salad dressings or GAZPACHO! Your heatwave must have! She boosts in many ways!

£12 a bottle which includes a donation to . Delivery to those local to me (Oxford). Just the last few bottles left! Message me! 🔥

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21/06/2026

Summer Sostice blessings to all my friends from Wittenham Clumps, a very special place where my head and my heart and my feet really like to be 💛 photos by my lovely son and shared with permission xx

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