From the looks of Bravo and the Food Network, gay and lbian chefs are ubiquo. But big-name LGBT oks say they're still the mory -- unrpaid and unrreprented.
Contents:
- WHICH FOOD NETWORK CHEFS ARE GAY?
- WHO IS THE GAY TV CHEF?
- WHO IS FOOD WORK GAY CHEFS?
- AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL
WHICH FOOD NETWORK CHEFS ARE GAY?
* food network gay chefs *
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WHO IS THE GAY TV CHEF?
Dpe numero gay and lbian personali on Bravo and Food Network, cludg Ted Allen of Chopped, Cat Cora of Around the World 80 Plat, Elizabeth Falkner of Iron Chef, San Feniger of Too Hot Tamal, Anne Burrell of Worst Cooks Ameri, and Top Chef's Art Smh, out chefs who work the dtry say they're still the mory. "There don't tend to be a lot of gay chefs, " says Yig Pura, a gay pastry chef and wner of the first season of Top Chef: Jt Dserts, and who September opened his own San Francis shop, Tout Sweet Patisserie.
WHO IS FOOD WORK GAY CHEFS?
Pura said the first chef he worked for was a lbian, so he didn't enunter much homophobia unr her learship. But unlike gay chefs, several lbian chefs reported ls bullyg due to their sexual orientatn and stead had to nont the sexist, male-domated mdset of the culary world.
AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL
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