More and more women are now chefs in the very best restaurants and more women are getting into the Michelin Guide every year, but men still dominate and I don’t know why.
Men win most of the competitions on TV and although women write plenty of cooking books the ones written by men seem to get the most attention.
So what’s going on?
Is it just that the world of chefs was male dominated for so long that women couldn’t get a look in, or are men really better in the kitchen?
Are men or women the best cooks or chefs?
I think it might be worth looking at the words “cooks” and “chefs”.
Most married women or ones that live with men cook day in and day out and it must be nigh on impossible to maintain enthusiasm, especially when the kids would most likely rather go to McDonald’s or eat pizza etc.
Hubby cooks perhaps once a week, and probably at the week-end, and he enjoys doing something different.
A fair contest?
Methinks, “Not”.
When it comes to haute cuisine and top restaurants, then women never got a real chance until this decade, and if they were given a job at a top restaurant then they were probably vegetable chefs or something similar.
Will women soon prove that they are as good as men at haute cuisine?
We will see in another ten years or so; but they are catching up fast!
There are women that are bad, good and great cooks and men that are bad, good and great cooks.
I know some men that wouldn’t know how to boil and egg if they lost their wives, and I went out with a young woman who cooked me a meal.
She did fried chicken, french fries and a salad.
It all looked fine and tasty until I tried to cut the chicken.
It was still frozen inside.
A man that’s interested in cooking and just cooks for fun at the week-end might well prepare far more exotic things than his wife that perhaps cooks 2-3 time a day several days a week.
But reverse the roles and you might well be surprised at how she cooks for pleasure.
A James Beard Foundation Award is considered to be the country’s most coveted honor for chefs; food and beverage professionals; broadcast media, journalists, and authors working on food; and restaurant architects and designers.
They are deemed “the Oscars of the food world,” by Time magazine.
Is that why all the male chefs in the picture have beards?
Or is it because most women don’t have beards, that they so often don’t get the top awards?
I’m also quite curious why the statistics is this way. It would have been much easier to understand if women are better in this field since they are quite natural at homemaking.
I dont think the quality of your cooking skills is reliant on your gender.