Dominique Crenn Bio-Food Network

Introducing Dominique Crenn, the chef at Luce in San Francisco. This video is part of Next Iron Chef America show hosted by Dominique Creen . SHOW DESCRIPTION :Meet your rivals. Who will become The Next Iron Chef?

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[oOMusicIsLifeOo]

I don't see why people keep going on about equality in the kitchen and "earning respect" from their male competitors. Traditionally women were the ones with any culinary skills, and men were assimilated into the culinary world. Besides, I like to see it as one person against another, not one gender against the other.

[AdIgnorantiam]

To put it more succinctly, women were seen as "cooks" and men were seen as "chefs" and taken more seriously. That's the way it's always been and it's only in the past couple decades that this perception has really started to change.

[Chefperuano92]

@oOMusicIsLifeOo um not really its the males who have been chefs since the beginning of the first restaurant in France and women came as chefs when Julia Child came maybe earlier but in reality women have been home cooks not chefs and trust me as a chef there is a big diff and to get to where those women is is a true reason why to respect those female chefs

[AdIgnorantiam]

You're not quite accurate about your assessment here. Women have traditionally been seen as "domestic cooks" making more homely food for their families. It's a much different world in the restaurant industry. Restaurants have been a male-dominated profession and like any business, it was harder for women to reach the higher echelons.

Don't confuse the gender roles of society at large in this context. Men were not assimilated into the culinary world, they've pretty much dominated it all along.