Tess Georgakopoulos, also known as “Chef Tess—Culinary Artist”, has been cooking and baking for well over 45
years since she was roughly 6 years old. Born into a Greek family, the art of cooking traditional meals using ones
senses rather than recipes and measurements was passed on from one generation to the next. Her father was
also a trained chef who brought the magic of food to life in another form on the weekends as they cooked
elaborate family meals together. Food prepared from the heart, with ones own hands and creativity was, and
continues to be an expression of love in her home. As an accomplished cook and baker, Tess enjoys creating
original recipes for her family and friends. Sweet, savory, or doughy, she enjoys experimenting and creating in
the kitchen daily.

Tess is proficient and experienced in creating classes and curriculum for conventional cooking, baking, pressure-
cooking, air frying, pizza making, Mediterranean Cooking, and meal preparation as well. More recently, she is

expanding her creativity and experience in the creation of Cooking Master Classes! A Culinary Artist indeed!
She has been teaching both in-person and on-line cooking classes through community education for a number of
years, and is currently working with almost 60 public school districts in and around the Twin Cities, in many
corners of Minnesota, in addition to school districts in Wisconsin, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma! Through
her teaching, Tess has helped people of all skill levels increase their confidence and expand their skills in the
kitchen reaching heights of their own personal creativity that they never new existed!
Always working towards expanding her culinary repertoire, Tess enjoys spending much of her free time in her
test kitchen creating new recipes and reinventing traditional ones as she combines traditional and new cooking
methods, equipment, appliances, and technology in the creation of her recipes that help make “dishing”
delicious and simple.
Tess has recently started writing her first cookbook, and her food blog is also in the works! Some of her creations
can be seen on her Facebook page, “Dish it up Good”, https://www.facebook.com/dishi... or on her
Instagram Feed.