Rochelle Huppin is an American chef, restaurateur and small business owner with projects based in Chicago, Illinois, and Culver City, California.
After graduating from The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in 1987, Huppin founded Chefwear, Inc, a company that provides culinary apparel to the hospitality industry, in 1990 [1] Huppin was one of the founding partners and Executive Pastry Chef at beacon: An Asian Cafe, before it closed its doors to the public in 2011.
[1] Huppin worked part-time during her senior year at UCLA, planting and tending the first herb garden at the Hotel Bel-Air.
In 1987, upon graduation from the CIA, Huppin secured the position of Pastry Assistant with Michel Richard's Citrus Restaurant during the year it opened on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.
Rochelle then moved back to Los Angeles to work for Wolfgang Puck & Barbara Lazaroff at their restaurants: Spago, located in West Hollywood at the time and Chinois on Main in Santa Monica, California.