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.

Cooking

Retail

The Chopping Block

Shelley Young

Karen Dante

Ida Dolce

Erin Patsiopoulos

Dionna Israel

Alphonse Griger

Quincy Bissic

Sara Salzinski

Nageen Wilson

Andrea Miller

The Culinary Education and Development team at The Chopping Block is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering a diverse range of cooking classes that enhance culinary skills and techniques for students of all levels. This team collaborates to create engaging curricula, train chef instructors, and ensure high-quality instruction in both hands-on and demonstration formats, fostering a vibrant learning environment that celebrates culinary creativity and excellence.

Culinary Education and Development

Culinary Education and Development

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