“The industry has been trying to move beyond this toxicity (albeit at the pace of a sloth), and your fetishising men with anger issues and egomaniac tendencies isn’t helping us women.”
It is, and always will be, a different experience for men and women in the kitchen, even down to the way we wear our aprons. Mine cinches in at my waist and accentuates my curves, while my male colleagues’ ones hang loosely below their rectangular man-waists. For ages, I didn’t want to admit that my gender was, in some ways, a disadvantage. I wanted to be a hardy girl who just cracked on and let everyone know how tough I was.
These days I work at a restaurant where the men treat me fairly. These places do exist. Early on, I messed up and forgot to let the chef know we were “mains away” on a big VIP table. The male sous chef saw the look of embarrassment and shame in my eyes, and on our eight-minute break, he took me to our local pub and bought me a pint. He said nothing – we sat in silence – but I knew the gesture came from him wanting me to know, “I think you’re good, I don’t want you to leave.
And my boys don’t relate to the “hot chef” thing either. In fact, they cringe at it. I’m so devastatingly sorry to tell you that the whole “chef daddy” character, for the most part, is totally fictional. Chefs are weirdos. We are people that opt to spend ludicrous amounts of time away from the people we love, in a sweaty dungeon, surrounded by fire and knives. We are not the sexy jocks; we are the music goths.
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