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Victoria Blamey: Kitchen and Women

victoria blamey: The Heat A Kitchen R evolution, which opens the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on Thursday, details the gender barriers women have faced in climbing the ranks of the professional culinary world, according to The Chronicle Herald. Interviewees include chef Anne-Sophie Pic, the only woman in France to have three Michelin stars for culinary excellence. Women were fighting for years to get out of the kitchen and now women are fighting to get their rightful place back in the kitchen, she said in an interview. Other chefs in the doc include Victoria Blamey and Anita Lo of New York, Charlotte Langley of Toronto, and Angela Hartnett of London. They also say female chefs don't get the same financial backing that men do. They talk about gender disparity in the culinary world, noting the media doesn't celebrate female chefs the way they do men. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.