The Chopping Block is a Cooking School, with two locations in Chicago which offers daily hands-on and demonstration cooking classes for the home cook. The classes at The Chopping Block Cooking School are intimate and interactive, and every month the subjects change. Topics like seasonal, ethnic, healthy/vegetarian and weeknight cooking, entertaining, knife skills and wine tasting and their own popular technique - oriented Building Blocks Series. All the classes are intended for all levels of students. Means the classes are beneficial both for beginners also those who are experts in cooking. There will be special summer vacation classes for children and teenagers. Every class will teach you the recipes from the menu for that day as well as many more tips and techniques for everyday cooking. The classes are specialized on particular topic so you will get proper knowledge about the topic. For example:

- Seafood on the Grill
- Pasta Classics
- Chicken 101: New Summer Menu
- Cooking for Your Baby
- Summer Fruit from Seedling Orchard
- Simple Summer Suppers

The Chopping Block specializes in customized private classes at their locations or at the location you wish, corporate teambuilding, bridal events, and birthday parties for children and adults. They also offer gift certificates in any denomination for classes and merchandise and gift registry for any occasion.

During the class time while making food you will taste a healthy sampling of everything made in class. However in Totally Hands On classes you will get the equivalent of a full meal. They also have special Demonstration classes that include a full meal such as Brunch at Lincoln Square and Friday Night Dinner Club at the Merchandise Mart.On the day of class; students receive a 10% discount on all merchandise, except for what’s already been marked down. You also get a 15% discount on all items on the “Hot Table” which features many tools, ingredients, and equipment used in that day’s lesson. They carry all sorts of gourmet and ethnic ingredients, tools, and cookware in our retail store. There is Building Block Series an intense six-month series providing one of the city's most comprehensive nonprofessional culinary training programs. Students can either take individual classes to sharpen certain skills, or they can complete the entire series for complete culinary proficiency. This series is created for both novices who need a "crash course" to learn all the basics, as well as for professionals seeking to work on and enhance their knowledge.

My point of view:

The Chopping Block is a good place to learn cooking for beginners. It also helps experts to increase their skills in cooking. It can be also helpful for Children and teenagers. Classes are scheduled well and you will be giving the training by the well known professionals. The one good thing is that there won’t be any repetition of the recipes means every month there will be different menu for teaching. The Chopping Block can help you in finding your way in this profession. They can help you in getting some work in the field. They do organized events in which you can use your skills and prove yourselves. I’ll say this makes this school a very good place to learn creative cooking.
Class Information: This link gives the information about polices of The Chopping Block. There will be detail about the classes, the schedule, fees structure, about the professionals. You will also come to know about the course policies, when can you get discount and how will you get it.

Building Block Series: The link will let you know about the classes. From which class you will get which type of information. You will see the kitchen techniques, the information about ingredients and different menus according to season.

Online Shopping: This link is for fast, easy and secure purchasing of kitchen ware with the use of internet. You can also purchase the online gift card provide by The Chopping Block.