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Joseph Shuldiner

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Joseph Shuldiner

Joseph Shuldiner is the founder and director of the Institute of Domestic Technology, a modern home-ec university located in Altadena and Beverly Hills, CA. The Institute offers year round classes, workshops and festivals on a variety of "lost art" subjects such as jam making, pickling, fermenting, cheese making, home coffee roasting, cocktail bitters and liqueur making, bread making, bacon curing and mustard making - just to name a few. Trained as a Master Food Preserver by the County of Los Angeles, Shuldiner, and his faculty of staff instructors, teach...

Steve Rudicel & Gloria Putnam

Steve Rudicel and Gloria Putnam have been raising goats and making cheese in Altadena since 2009. They are both graduates of the Artisan Cheese making course at the Dairy Products Technology Center, California State Polytechnic Unive... Read More

Kevin West

Kevin West is a journalist, preserver, and cookbook author who comes from Blount County, Tennessee, at the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains. During his 13 years on staff at W Magazine, he lived in New York, Paris, and Los Angeles, whe... Read More

Joseph Shuldiner

Joseph Shuldiner is the founder and director of the Institute of Domestic Technology, a modern home-ec university located in Altadena and Beverly Hills, CA. The Institute offers year round classes, workshops and festivals on a variety of "lost art... Read More