The Chopping Block
Erin Patsiopoulos is an experienced culinary professional with a strong background in baking and pastry. Since July 2014, Erin has served as a Chef Instructor Trainer and Chef Instructor at The Chopping Block. Prior experience includes serving as Executive Pastry Chef and Pastry Cook at Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park from June 2010 to April 2014, and as Pastry Chef De Partie and Pastry Cook at Conrad Indianapolis from June 2006 to June 2010. Erin began the career as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from August 2002 to June 2005. Educational qualifications include a Certificate in Baking and Pastry from the California Culinary Academy (2005-2006), a Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2002-2005), and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis (1998-2002).
The Chopping Block
The Chopping Block, Chicago’s largest recreational cooking school and gourmet retail store, offers guests a large slate of demonstration and hands-on classes, as well as wine classes, private cooking parties and corporate team building events. Classes at the two locations cover cooking skills and techniques as well as seasonal, ethnic, healthy, vegetarian and weeknight cooking. A series of "boot camp" classes allows students to take cooking to the next level with an intensive week-long taste of professional culinary school style instruction. The Chopping Block’s retail stores feature professional-quality cookware and kitchen tools, plus an array of gourmet and ethnic ingredients and hand-selected food-friendly wines.