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Pampered Chef Jean-Luc Albin
Restaurant: Maurice's French Pastries, New Orleans, La.
Recipes from Chef Albin: Clafouti Chocolate Grand Marnier Cake Fresh Fruit Tart

The world of food has carried Jean-Luc Albin from France to America by way of Bermuda and through a series of jobs in operations large and small. Some might be surprised to find the former hotel food and beverage director now running a bakery in a suburb of New Orleans — but not Albin. To be the owner, not just the employee: that had been his goal since his youth in Briancon in the French Alps. Albin's father was a talented chef, and the boy was barely 15 when he decided to follow in his dad's footsteps. Albin worked in a series of small resort hotels in the south of France and signed on as a three-year apprentice in Marseilles as soon as he was old enough. He then went on to land a job in a classical kitchen.

Albin credits this experience of working with legendary chef Alexandre Chabert at Tain l'Hermitage with helping turn a youthful experience into a career commitment. A mere six months later, Albin was ready to head for Paris — not just to the City of Light but to the Hôtel Georges V, where he remained for five years. The years he spent at one of the world's most famous properties served as the résumé that would make possible much of what happened next. Albin made it as far west as Bermuda to serve as chef at the Southampton and then took a job at the Omni International in Atlanta. He was only 26 when the Fairmont brought him to New Orleans as executive chef, eventually promoting him to director of food and beverage.

Albin later moved on to the Fairmont in Dallas, also as food and beverage director, and then headed to Los Angeles to become executive assistant to the chairman of Filmland Corporate Center, headquarters for MGM/UA Studios. Before long, he was that company's chief of operations and building manager, as well as general manager and vice president of its five-star catering company. What lured Albin back to New Orleans was the chance to serve as food and beverage director at the Windsor Court Hotel, the city's most highly rated property. But what kept him in town, with his wife Marlene, his son Jean-Henri and his daughter Lilli Margaux, was the chance to buy Maurice's French Pastries.

Quickly growing the operation, Albin has created a coffee shop inside the bakery and expanded to provide pastries for many of the restaurants and shops in New Orleans. Maurice's French Pastries trucks are everywhere in the city, delivering the cafe's delicious goods. Now Albin not only excels at producing the best pastries he knows how to make, he also has the satisfaction of being master of his own destiny. And for him, that is a sweet treat indeed.

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