Rebecca Bishop is a baker, food writer, award-winning bakery founder and baking teacher. Her love for long fermented bread and pastries led her to open Two Magpies Bakery, a bakery, cafe and shop, in a small seaside town in Suffolk in 2013. This first location was an ode to modern baking, with the open plan bakery allowing customers to watch as crusty sourdough loaves were pulled steaming from the deck oven and delivered straight to the shop counter.
From there the Two Magpies team opened numerous new shops in Suffolk and Norfolk, all of which proudly show-cased Rebecca’s love of slow baking, big flavours and quality, local ingredients.

In 2019 Rebecca responded to the interest in home baking by opened the hugely popular Two Magpies Bakery School hosting classes covering everything from ‘‘An Introduction to Sourdough’ to ‘European Baking’. In 2023 Rebecca left the Two Magpies bakery group to open a new bakery school business, The Next Loaf, focusing on teaching small groups of students in a home environment.

Also in 2023, Rebecca’s first book ‘Two Magpies Bakery - stories and recipes from East Anglia’ was released by Headline Books. It draws on her experience of following her dream to open that very first bakery, and what she has learnt on her journey to become an accomplished and successful baker and food writer.

Rebecca lives in the Suffolk countryside with her dog, Wilson where she wakes up every day thinking about ‘the next loaf’. You can follow her on instagram @thenextloaf for instructional and inspiring videos and recipes.