Instructor

Carl Shavitz
Founder/Director of the Artisan Bread School. An artisan baker, he supplies breads to restaurants and specialty shops in the Cambridge area and London. He lives in the Cambridgeshire Fens of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Carl started Artisan Bread School in 2005 and devotes May each year to teaching at its School in Italy. He has given numerous courses in the United Kingdom and in March 2010 returned to the United States for the third time. Future courses are being scheduled on both the East and West Coasts of the USA for 2010 and 2011. Carl trained at The Village Bakery in Melmerby, Cumbria and Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, Ireland. He worked at The Village Bakery and The Three Crowns Inn in Herefordshire before becoming an independent artisan baker.