{"id":726,"date":"2009-06-09T07:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T07:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2009-06-09T07:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T07:31:33","slug":"requirements-for-best-new-chef-be-male-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/06\/requirements-for-best-new-chef-be-male-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirements for &#8220;best new chef&#8221;?  Be male and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"newchefs.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/newchefs.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" align=left><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/dot.gif\" align=left width=11 height=250>The last issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/2009\/06\/food_wine_magazine.html\">Food &#038; Wine<\/a> magazine has an article about the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/articles\/best-new-chefs-and-their-easiest-recipes-2009\">best new chefs<\/a>&#8221; and a picture of 11 of them in the cover.  Mika, my 7-year-old, took a quick look at it and noticed &#8220;there is only one girl&#8221;.  And indeed, she&#8217;s right.  There are also no noticeable minorities.  Do you need to be male and white to be noticed as a chef in America?  Or are only white men becoming chefs?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/top-chef\">Top Chef<\/a>, the Bravo TV reality series, seems to have little trouble finding a good number of women and minorities for its show (though most winners have been white males) &#8211; so I don&#8217;t believe that good, new women &#038; minority chefs are not there, perhaps they are just not cooking at the &#8220;bistro&#8221;-style restaurants where many new chefs establish their reputations.  Or perhaps they are cooking more ethnic cuisine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last issue of Food &#038; Wine magazine has an article about the &#8220;best new chefs&#8221; and a picture of 11 of them in the cover. Mika, my 7-year-old, took a quick look at it and noticed &#8220;there is only one girl&#8221;. And indeed, she&#8217;s right. There are also no noticeable minorities. Do you need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}