Joseph Amendola Award

The Joseph Amendola Award is presented to a Pastry Chef or Master Baker. This recipient has devoted their career to their profession and to the mentoring of young individuals who will be future pastry chefs.

2013 - Wolfgang Bierer, CMPC, CEC, CCE, AAC

Retired; ACF Chefs of the Low Country

2012 - Albert Imming, CMPC, CCE, AAC

Culinary professor emeritus, Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Ill.; ACF Louis Joliet Chapter

2011 - Derek Spendlove, CEPC, CCE, AAC

Chair, baking/pastry arts, Sullivan University, Louisville, Ky.; ACF Kentucky Chapter

2010 - John Hui, CEPC, AAC

Corporate pastry chef, Pebble Beach Resorts, Pebble Beach, Calif.
ACF Chefs Las Vegas

2009 - Gunther Heiland, CMPC, AAC