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 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.