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On Cooking Events for Women Chefs

“My brother always used to make fun of this certain kind of cooking event that was like women chefs coming together … I was asked to cook at this event—this was a long time ago, maybe ten years ago—and it was called Chicks on Fire. You know, it was just like this ‘Local Female Chefs Cook-Off!’ kind of thing, and they called it Chicks on Fire and he thought that name was so funny, so every time I was asked to do any kind of women’s event he’d just called it ‘mujeres en fuego’.” 

-Andrea Reusing, Chef-Owner Lantern, Chapel Hill, NC (http://lanternrestaurant.com/)

Jan 27, 2011
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Aretsky's Addendum

——— SMS Text ———
From: Beth A
Sent: Jan 23, 2011 10:37 PM
Subject: Hi Charlotte,

Hi Charlotte,
Hope all is well….I want to change the answer to the question of what would my book be called…

“Bitchin in the kitchen”

Ok.

Best

Beth

Jan 24, 2011
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Jan 19, 2011
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Jan 17, 2011
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“I think sweet is feminine and savory is masculine. Like, my favorite thing—also, I used to do this when I traveled more, before I spent all my time in kitchens in New York City, but whenever I’d travel, I’d always—my thing, when I travel, is I always get a chocolate chip cookie, and sometimes I eat it in the airport. Sometimes, I like eat it on my flight as we’re taking off, ‘cause it’s like, well, at least if I die, I’ll be eating a chocolate chip cookie, or I’ll just have eaten a chocolate chip cookie. And my favorite thing is to watch men standing alone in line … I would always just like get an immediate crush on any man standing in line that ordered something similar to me, which is like, a cookie and a soft pretzel, or like, a giant cookie and a coffee or whatever, because they were just going to go house that just like you were … I think some men are really ashamed to be like, ‘Oh I like sweets. I want dessert,’ you know? Where it’s like, ‘Oh, honey, YOU get dessert,’ or, I think there’s also something about that. But that’s like my favorite thing ‘cause I felt like it always really warmed my heart. Either like, that’s my dream man, or warmed my heart, and like, oh, why am I, if I don’t feel this certain way, by any means, in terms of like feminism, why am I so surprised or endeared when there’s a man standing by himself ordering a cookie? … It just warms you, your sensitive side. A man eating a cookie equals sensitivity. Apple Pie = Woman = Man with Cookie = Sensitivity. It doesn’t make any sense at all, but somehow, it makes all the sense in the world.” —Christina Tosi, Pastry Chef, www.momofuku.com, with a theory on why Americans tend to consider the pastry department female turf. (january 10, 2011)
Jan 13, 2011
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“I think that so many women were so happy and proud about not cooking that I think it’s ok now to say, ‘Yes, I’m a woman and I cook.’ ” —Carla Hall, www.alchemybycarlahall.com (january 7, 2011) 
Jan 9, 2011
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Jan 9, 2011
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“I think the more interesting question might be, these days, about, because there’s plenty of females out there cooking, is, maybe, is the money going to them? And I don’t mean salary. I mean seed money, alright? Because that brings us more to talking about an even bigger question, which is, just in general, females and startups and female business leaders, because that’s what happens when you open a restaurant and helm a restaurant, a lot of the time … and are people who are investing in restaurants, not chef-owned restaurants perhaps, but other restaurants, do they have the confidence to put a female in that position? So for me, it all goes back to the money.” —Gina DePalma, Pastry Chef at Babbo, www.ginadepalma.net (january 6, 2011)
Jan 7, 2011
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Jan 7, 2011
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“My whole goal, I’m going to go out there and I’m going to be a pastry chef, and I’m going to get three stars, and then I want to get four stars, and to this day, that I know of, there’s only one pastry chef that got four stars in NYC, and that was Lisa Hershey at Chanterelle … and she’s not in the business anymore … she went into corporate, like corporate banking or something like that.” —Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez, my first interview 1/3/2010
Jan 3, 2011
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