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. In February 2010 he gave a 5-day course at the newly established School of Artisan Food in the United Kingdom and in March 2010 returns to the United States for courses on both the East and West Coasts. 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.