About

Your tutor, Paul Merry has been involved with craft baking and masonry ovens for over thirty years, and has been teaching courses for fifteen years.

Panary | your tutor, Paul Merry

When he is not teaching he is a consultant in traditional baking or is dealing with his French wood-fired ovens.

“I find it a real pleasure to teach”

An Australian, he had his own bakery with wood-fired oven outside Melbourne, where he enjoyed for over a decade the life of the village baker in an appreciative community.

He considers that the step from being a master of your trade to becoming a teacher and a consultant is a natural and easy progression.

“During the years I was in my bakery I enjoyed having apprentices, and to watch them flourish into competent bakers was deeply rewarding.

I have always enjoyed teaching my craft, and now I see it as a worthy duty given that the craft itself faces extinction unless others are persuaded to put the clock back to allow time for fermentation and the proper handling of dough.”