Chef Biography
Born in January 1977, in Bruck, a Province of Styria, Austria, Barbara Illmaier always had a sweet tooth and made her apprentice as a pastry cook in Grossveitsch as well as confectioner at the Cafe Schein in Styria. Following her apprenticeship, she went to work directly for Chef Heinz Reitbauer at the Steirereck/Wirthaus Pagusch.
Great Chefs television showed up in May of 1998 to tape her Warm Day & Night pudding for their Great Chefs of Austria series for the ORF network in Vienna.