Basics With Babish: Bread Starters/Wild Yeast Almost all of Babish's bread recipes use active dry yeast, which is fine because that's the easiest and most convenient way to make bread, but I'm sure a lot of us would appreciate a basics ep teaching us how to make and maintain a healthy bread starter. 

For those who aren't aware bread starters are how bread was traditionally made. It requires much more skill, effort, and dedication, but the end result is an order of magnitude greater than what active dry yeast can create. 