When Alex Guarnaschelli was in a restaurant in Paris, a colleague even told her: "You suck, you're a girl, I hate you." (p. 431, par. 2). This might have been a perfectly reasonable opinion, if not for the sole fact that she was a woman. All she wanted to do was cook the sea bass, which inevitably burned, but her colleague wanted nothing to do with her in the kitchen. This view is reinforced when Rebecca Charles talks about how, even though she is the chef of the kitchen, delivery drivers will ignore her and ask her male sous chef for a signature when making a delivery. Some people go so far as to completely ignore the fact that women are great cooks, even ignoring them in their own kitchens. If a female chef is overly enthusiastic she is seen as an immature student. The journalist takes care to structure the questions in such a way as to lead the women to talk about the worst situations they have been forced to endure due to their