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    stoprobbers: Top female chefs that immediately jump to mind: April Bloomfield, Cat Cora, Anita Lo, Traci Des Jardins, Elizabeth Faulkner, Alexandra Guernaschelli (... more »
    Jesscooks: The perceived lack of female chefs is totally an East Coast thing. Big names on the left coast include almost as many female chefs as men: Alice, Susa... more »
    Bob Wiley: What about Anne Burrell ("Secrets of a Restaurant Chef," was executive chef of Centro Vinoteca) and Alex Guarnaschelli ("The Cooking Loft, executive c... more »
    PilgrimSoul: I am, in another forum, watching a dude who is dating a feminist refer to women as "tits and ass" and justify the same. Then I come here and read thi... more »
    edie_g: I've been dreaming/planning on going to culinary school for a couple of years now. I mean, most of my friends are guys and I'm not easily offended, b... more »
    Claire Buoyant: I dunno. She's not a professional chef (in the "running a restaurant" sense), but It's hard for me to think of a single person who has had more influe... more »
    RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee): Female Chefs I can name off the top of my head: Alice Waters, Cat Cora, Mary Sue and Susan of Two Hot Tamales fame, Traci des Jardins (she's been on F... more »
    clitoryss: sexism is why i got out of the business. i know that probably sounds like a cover or a cop-out, but shit. i had an interview last 90 seconds, once. ... more »
    miss_bacchus: also, the blatant machismo in the professional cooking world is why i decided not to go to culinary school after all. many, many professional kitchens... more »
    miss_bacchus: Giada, btw, went to the CIA and hence is a professionally trained chef. She has her chops, but because of her good looks and eye-talian name got pigeo... more »
    Nighthawk (the former Okori Wadsworth) is headed back to DGUSA in November!: As someone who eats a lot (and thus has learned how to cook) I think of Cat Cora and Giada (Italian sprite that she is) as chefs much more worthy of m... more »
    Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.: I already assume that when I open my collectively-run vegan bakery some day, the only press I'll receive will be from anarchist 'zines. But I'm okay w... more »
    sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): I tried to break the barrier, I really did. But my antelope-cantaloupe salad and gnu stew were shunned by every hot restaurant in New York. more »
    Samanthrax: I always thought this an interesting paradox, since our place is supposed to be in the kitchen. more »
    The Queen of No: My ex works for an interior designer who is doing Susanna Goin's new restaurant in LA. She's one of the few big name Executive female Chefs I can thin... more »
  • #hellskitchen

    The Fame Game: Why Do Women Chefs Get Shafted?

    "Mad Men–style ass-pinching may have gone the way of aspic, but women, for all of their gains in the restaurant industry, are dealing with a more subtle form of sexism: visibility, or lack thereof." More »
  • #inbrief

    Food For Thought