About Short List Provisions

Short List Lingo

There's a gentle learning curve to this quirky little operation. Here's the decoder ring.

Short Listers

AKA "the Enlisted" — the good island folk signed up to get Short List notifications.

Short Listers at Large

Enlisted, but not currently a Breadhead or Freebird — ordering à la carte. Never unappreciated, just one foot in Breadtopia.

Breadheads / Freebirds (GF)

The VIP short list of the Short List — subscribed to an active Breadscription Series and all its perks.

Breadscription Series

The themed bread lineup we're currently baking and toasting our way through — usually 6-plus weeks, sometimes with an intermission.

Hot Drop

A surprise goody notice outside the normal rhythm of the current series.

Breadscriber Exclusives (BSEs)

Limited test-kitchen offerings, available only to current Breadheads and Freebirds.

The Dough-Joe

Home base, in the Colvos neighborhood — where the proverbial sausage is made and pickups happen.

A Brief History

The Short List was born in early 2020, a bartering group where I offered sourdough boules in exchange for local eggs or backyard produce on an island Facebook group. Eight island neighbors signed on for the extra loaves baked alongside bread for the house each week — and it grew from there.

That September, the inaugural Breadscription Series kicked off: the Magic Carpet Ride, four weeks of Farmhouse Rye, The Notorious, the Great Pumpkin, and Olivia Kalamata. Since then we've settled into a rhythm of 6-to-8-week series, usually spaced out by an intermission week or two.

By the winter of 2021, baking six boules a night, several nights a week, had turned the house into a bread-scented furnace — something had to give before summer rolled around. A third-hand deck oven, found just in time, tripled capacity as the number of listers grew past 180.

Around then, Caffe Vino Oleo (now The Little Cup) challenged a respectable gluten-free loaf into existence. The Vino was born, café-exclusive at first, until demand won out — now available by the slice at the café, or by the pre-ordered loaf from SLP.

The Short List keeps growing the same way it always has — by word of mouth — and now counts over 300 lovers of real, honest, local, organic bread, not to mention coffee, chocolate, and fermented delights.