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Article: Icing on the cake Master pastry chef tops off 26-year career at JJC
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- The Herald News - Joliet (IL)
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- August 2, 2005
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Albert Imming, a pastry chef instructor at Joliet Junior College, holds his personal creation, a marble cheesecake. Imming is putting down his mixing bowls after 26 years at JJC.
Master pastry chef Albert Imming, 60, of Crest Hill began his lifelong pastry career when he was 12 years old. His father owned a retail shoe store in Amsterdam and his mother owned a second one just outside Amsterdam.
"Because my mother was gone a lot, someone had to start cooking the meals and it got me interested in cooking," said Imming. "I wanted to be a chef, so my father took me to a trade school, but all the classes were filled. They said, `We have room in the breads and pastry class,'" and to this day, I'm ...