New York's Top Lady Chefs Speak

You might recall our landmark award-winning duo of posts, New York's Top Lady Chefs and New York's Top Lady Chefs: Part 2. In the same vein, New York mag has a great group interview this week with several of the women chefs we mentioned, and they have a good time grousing about the boy's club that is the restaurant business. Many good quotes, so here's one: from the Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield:

I didn't want the fact that I was a woman to be an issue, so I just put my head down and cooked and did the best that I could. I moved to wherever I was able to move. And one day, some guys came in and shook everyone's hands, and I held out my hand and this guy just walked straight past me. It's like, "Okay, fuck you. I'm gonna be better than you one day."