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Author Black, Rachel E

Title Cheffes de Cuisine Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen
Published Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (209 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: La mère Brazier: The Woman, the Chef -- Glossary -- Introduction -- The Current Status of Women in Restaurant Kitchens -- Finding Women in Kitchens in the Past and the Present -- Methods -- Speaking Out against Misconduct in the Kitchen, or Not -- Understanding the Structures of Inequality -- Food, Cooking, and Feminism -- An Intersectional Approach Faces France's Denial of Racism -- Chapter Overviews -- 1 Cuisine des mères lyonnaises: Making Sense of Women's Culinary Work
Women Finding Meaning in the Legend of the Mères Lyonnaises -- The Other Lyonnais Culinary Legend: Paul Bocuse -- Who Were the Mères Lyonnaises? -- Cuisine Bourgeoise -- Gastronomic Literature and Guidebooks -- Defending Tradition -- The Emotional Labor of Mothers -- Role Models -- Conclusion -- 2 Des femmes avec du caractère: Performing Gender and Authenticity in the bouchon lyonnais -- The Bouchon as a Space of Authenticity -- A Battle over Authenticity -- Mothers Who Yell -- Becoming a Mère -- Motherhood -- Playing the Part -- Representing Lyonnais Cuisine
Production, Reproduction, and the Performance of Authenticity -- 3 Apprentie: Reproducing and Subverting Gender through Culinary Education -- Formation: Culinary School in France -- The Culinary School Experience -- The Eugénie Brazier Scholarship -- Les Boursières -- Apprenticeship: A Woman in a Man's World -- Learning a Craft -- Conclusion -- 4 Stars in Their Eyes: Ambition and Bias in the Kitchen -- Why the Top Matters -- Tabata Mey: Créatrice -- Audrey Jacquier: Homegrown Talent -- Changing Media Representations of Female Culinary Professionals -- Conclusion
5 Cheffe de cuisine: Women Redefining the Kitchen and Labor -- Paulette Castaing: The Last Mère Moves beyond the Legend -- Sonia Ezgulian: Communicating Food and the Kitchen -- Connie Zagora: An Inclusive Nouvelle Cuisine Lyonnaise -- Many Ways to Be a Woman on the Line -- Conclusion -- The Challenges of the Professional Kitchen -- New Trends and the Future -- Scholars in the Kitchen -- What We Can All Learn from Studying Kitchens -- Looking to Lyon to Lead -- Notes -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Women cooks -- France
Restaurants -- France
Women in the hospitality industry -- France
Women in the food industry -- France
Sex discrimination in employment -- France
Sex discrimination against women -- France
Women in the hospitality industry.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252052934
0252052935