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The Brian Lehrer Show / October 26, 2007 / She-Chefs

She-Chefs

Friday, October 26, 2007

Is there gender bias in New York’s restaurant kitchens? Rebecca Charles, chef/owner of Pearl Oyster Bar, Anita Lo, chef/co-owner of Annisa, and April Bloomfield, chef/co-owner of the Spotted Pig, talk about why there are so few women chefs in New York.

Read “A Woman’s Place?” in this week’s New York Magazine


Comments

  • [1] Joe Corrao from Brooklyn October 26, 2007 - 10:50AM

    you go girl
  • [2] Anne from Times Square October 26, 2007 - 10:54AM

    Was Julia Child a real chef? How do your guests think she effected our view of female chefs?


  • [3] Joanne Hendricks from NYC October 26, 2007 - 01:02PM

    Unfortunately I wasn't able to hear the interviews but I am disturbed by the negative postings of some listeners. It seems there is a very macho atmosphere in some restaurant kitchens- harboring ill feelings and certainly spawning book contracts by publishers. It might be some sort of sensational, money, TV plot for recognition. Or it's maybe the Bush administration plot to make white American men more aggressive-- trickled into the kitchen. Whatever it may be, a kitchen certainly has a different feeling when a woman is in charge. And may I repeat- posted by another-- you go girl-- and fight them off !!


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