Chef/Instructor Shelly Kaldunski is a 1996 graduate of the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. She worked as a pastry chef in fine dining restaurants in both San Francisco and the Washington DC area. She is a food writer and was an associate food editor for Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook. She has been teaching in SRJC's Culinary Arts Department as an adjunct instructor since 2007 and as full time faculty since Fall 2012.