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Synopsis: Trailer | The film explores the challenges of women becoming successful head chefs. Using personal stories, the film exposes the unequal treatment of women, while creatively offering correctives from the experiences of women who have found success against the odds. A great resource for anyone looking to understand the need for gender equality and to break barriers in the food industry. - Bullfrog Films
A memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant.
Charlotte Druckman walks the reader into the world behind the hot line. But this is a different perspective on the kitchen: one told through the voices of more than 70 of the best and brightest women cooking today.
Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country?
Examines how the world of professional chefs is gendered, what conditions have led to this gender segregation, and how women chefs feel about their work in relation to men. Also available as an e-book at EBSCO e-book collection.
Cooking and all it entails is to this day primarily a woman's responsibility. How this relationship between women and food developed through the twentieth century and why it has endured are the questions the author seeks to answer.
Also available as an e-book at EBSCO E-Book collection.
A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded America's first certified organic restaurant.
Despite significant advances in gender equality - food and femininity remain closely connected in the public imagination as well as the emotional lives of women. Also available as an e-book at EBSCO e-book collection.
Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today.
Provincial French cooking, each chapter devoted to a separate region of the country. Also available as an e-book at the Open Library of the Internet Archive.
"A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen" provides a provocative survey of over 7,000 working in women in the foodservice industry across the United States.
Format: Streaming
Series: Career Options for Women: Emerging Opportunities
Summary: This program features profiles of three women who have stirred up successful careers in the culinary industry: a gourmet butcher; a commercial baker specializing in artisan breads; and an apprentice chef.
Format: Streaming
Summary: This program follows a large number of women who have found success and fulfillment as brewery owners, pub owners, hops farmers, home-based and large-scale beer artisans, and other positions in the industry.
Format: Audio Streaming
Summary: Missy Singer DuMars interviews women in food - chefs, farmers, writers, teachers, bakers and other food makers on their personal story with food.
