Photo credits

Most photographs on Lake & Loaf are in the public domain or released under the Creative Commons CC0 dedication, found through Openverse and Wikimedia Commons. A few are published under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licences, which allow reuse with credit; their authors are named below. Each image was resized and cropped to a 3:2 format and converted to WebP; no other changes were made.

Photos illustrate a topic. Food photos show generic dishes and breads, not the recipes on this site or the products of any business. People and places shown have no connection with Lake & Loaf.

Photos by page

• Home page (top): A round, golden sourdough loaf cooling on a wire rack. Photo: Nutrition, Food Safety & Health, Sourdough bread on cooling rack (Flickr, via Openverse), CC0.
• Country Levain Loaf: A Step-by-Step Sourdough Recipe for Home Ovens: Close-up of slices of sourdough bread showing an open, airy crumb and a thin golden crust. Photo: Nutrition, Food Safety & Health, Slices of freshly baked sourdough bread (Flickr, via Openverse), CC0.
• Twin Cities Farmers Markets in 2026: Days, Hours, Locations and Winter Markets: Garlic bulbs, beetroot, spring onions and cabbage displayed in wooden crates at a market stall. Photo: rawpixel, Free farmers market, vegetables display (rawpixel, via Openverse), CC0.
• Getting Around the Twin Cities Without a Car: Transit, Trails and Food Neighbourhoods: A wide, tree-lined bike and walking path in a sunken former rail corridor passing under a series of bridges. Photo: Michael Hicks, Midtown Greenway.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 2.0.
• Lake Street, Minneapolis: A Food Corridor Shaped by Streetcars, a Sears Tower and New Arrivals: A large brick and concrete building with a central tower seen from above, surrounded by trees and the low roofs of south Minneapolis. Photo: August Schwerdfeger, Midtown Exchange from Riverside Plaza 2014-08-26.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 4.0.
• Linden Hills, Minneapolis: How a Streetcar Neighbourhood on Lake Harriet Grew Its Village Feel: The shore of Lake Harriet with trees in the foreground and the downtown Minneapolis skyline far in the distance. Photo: SusanLesch, Minneapolis-Lake Harriet-2012.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• Mill City: How Flour Built Minneapolis, and Where to See the Mills Today: Black and white documentary photograph of tall concrete grain elevators and mill buildings beside the Mississippi. Photo: Jerry Mathiason, Washburn A Mill complex, St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, HAER MN-92--3.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
• Minnesota Wheat and Flour: What Hard Red Spring Wheat Means for Your Bread: Black and white photograph of a railway freight car stacked to the roof with sacks of flour. Photo: polkbritton, To Market: Freight car loaded with sacks of flour, Pillsbury mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1939. (Flickr, via Openverse), Public domain.
• Northeast Minneapolis: Mill Workers, Immigrant Churches, a Brewery and the Food Culture of "Nordeast": A street corner in Northeast Minneapolis with low brick commercial buildings, trees and a traffic signal. Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri, 051907-013-NordeastMPLS.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 3.0.
• Living in Linden Hills (and other Minneapolis neighbourhoods): what to know before you rent: Black and white photograph of a vintage wooden streetcar on its track beside trees and a station shelter. Photo: Jet Lowe, Duluth streetcar 265.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
• Rye Levain Loaf: A 40% Rye Sourdough Baked in a Tin: A dark rye loaf with a cracked crust cut open on a board, showing a dense, moist crumb. Photo: Leonhard Lenz, Cut rye bread Kartoffelkruste 2025-02-20 02.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• Minnesota Seasonal Produce Calendar: What Is Fresh, Month by Month: Several ears of fresh sweet corn with their green husks partly pulled back. Photo: Couleur, Fresh Sweet Corn.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• How to Make and Keep a Sourdough Starter: A Day-by-Day Method: Several glass jars of pale, bubbly sourdough starter on a kitchen counter. Photo: Nutrition, Food Safety & Health, Sourdough starter beginning to bubble as it ferments (Flickr, via Openverse), CC0.
• What Is Levain? Sourdough, Starters and Natural Leavening Explained: A round, scored loaf of sourdough bread with a floury golden crust sitting in a black cast-iron pot. Photo: Nutrition, Food Safety & Health, Sourdough bread baked in cast iron dutch oven (Flickr, via Openverse), CC0.
• Wild Rice (Manoomin): Minnesota's State Grain, From Lake to Kitchen: A nineteenth-century colour print of two people in a birchbark canoe gathering wild rice among tall grasses. Photo: rawpixel, Gathering Wild Rice. Original Minneapolis (rawpixel, via Openverse), CC0.
• Minnesota Wild Rice Soup: A Creamy Home Recipe, and How to Cook Wild Rice: A white bowl of creamy grain and vegetable soup on a wooden table. Photo: rawpixel, Free vegetable barley creamy soup (rawpixel, via Openverse), CC0.
• Baking Levain Bread in a Cold Minnesota Kitchen: Temperature, Timing and Warm Spots: A smooth, round ball of bread dough resting on a floured surface. Photo: Nutrition, Food Safety & Health, Proofing sourdough (Flickr, via Openverse), CC0.

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