Article: Mint meltaway Plainfield pastry chef switches from hospitality field to teaching at JJC

Chef Mark Muszynski, new Joliet Junior College culinary arts instructor for pastry, shows of a chocolage egg and backgammon set he made. Muszynski helps Suzette Simpson make Mexican wedding cookies called pavarones.

When certified executive pastry chef Mark Muszynski, 41, of Plainfield, teaches the art of pastry and bread making to culinary arts students at Joliet Junior College, the classroom melts away and Muszynski feels he is back in the hospitality business again.

"This is very different from teaching at the downtown school," said Muszynski, who, for the last five years, was an instructor and department head -- overseeing 15 pastry chef instructors -- at the Cooking Hospitality ...

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