The Chopping Block
Shelley Young is the Founder and CEO of The Chopping Block, a renowned cooking school and retail store in Chicago, where Shelley has served since September 1997. With a rich background in culinary arts, Shelley is an experienced chef instructor and a skilled speaker available for cooking demonstrations and lectures. Additionally, Shelley has held various leadership roles, including President of the Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce and a board member at Common Threads. An alumna of the Iowa Culinary Institute with a degree in Culinary Arts, Shelley also has training in Team Leadership and Management from Landmark Education.
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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.