Aditi Handa Story: How The Baker’s Dozen Made Sourdough Bread Accessible Across India
Aditi Handa is the no-nonsense, sourdough-obsessed co-founder of The Baker’s Dozen who decided that India’s daily bread deserved better than the chemical-laden, 20-ingredient monstrosities dominating supermarket shelves. Trained at serious places — Diploma in International Bread Baking from the International Culinary Institute in New York and Patisserie from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris — Aditi could have easily stayed in the “gourmet” lane and charged premium prices to people who post their avocado toast on Instagram. Instead, she and her husband Sneh Jain started The Baker’s Dozen in 2013 in Prabhadevi, Mumbai with a radical (for India at the time) idea: make real sourdough bread an everyday essential, not a special-occasion flex. She’s the woman who dragged artisanal sourdough out of fancy restaurants and elite home-baker WhatsApp groups and shoved it into kirana stores and common households at prices starting around ₹40. She started small, educating skeptical “aunties” by literall...