"For generations, cooking has been predominantly a women’s realm, and the knowledge and wisdom that sustained humanity has been passed through the female line. So the culinary world is one of the few in the professional sphere where women have an edge."

~ Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich

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https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/mar/05/feast-master-chefs-international-womens-day

Women ​built​, and still shape, our culinary culture every day

In kitchens both private and professional, women have been leading innovation for generations – from giving value to domestic traditions to calling out sexism

The Guardian

@wdlindsy

Yet who are the most famous or highest paid chefs ?

@the5thColumnist Precisely. This is something the marvelous food historian Karen Hess pointed out to me in letters several decades back: women do the cooking, invent the amazing cuisine, and men take the credit and hog the money.