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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?
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. * food network gay chefs *
But when to mercial kchens, women are still unrpaid and unrreprented -- that go double for lbian 's no secret that the culary dtry is male-domated, but acrdg to gay and lbian chefs, the macho environment has ltle tolerance for anythg feme -- whether that be a woman or a gay man whom workers view as culary dtry's misogyny is well documented. 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 THE GAY TV CHEF?
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.
Falkner beme San Francis's facto gay weddg ke baker wh her flagship bakery, Cizen Cake, known for s unique, creative nstctns, and s proximy to Cy Hall. "Pura stggl wh the same stereotypil assumptn, wh the poundg factor that people assume all pastry chefs are gay, he says. Elizabeth Falkner"Whether you're gay or straight, whether you're a Mlim, Christian, or Buddhist, people love food, " says Pura.
WHO IS FOOD WORK GAY CHEFS?
"I've found that [food is] actually a really homogenizg pot. "When somethg is lic, there's no homophobia or hatred. If they're gay, they're gay, but they are also great at what they do.
AMERI'S MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF WAS GAY AS HELL
"But the great chefs who happen to be gay and lbian aren't jt rtg on their lrels.