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While living in Nome several years ago, June Engstrom let a visitor take a whiff of her sourdough starter. And while not exactly an ambrosia coveted by most scent connoisseurs, this man was a sourdough starter aficionado himself. He was the owner of a sourdough starter that he said was carried by pioneers over the Oregon Trail sometime before 1869.  
“Hmm,” he reportedly said to Engstrom. “Smells like the same bacteria as mine.”