Women in the restaurant kitchen

(From left) Ooi, Wan, Wong and Goh. Photo: Handout

In the past, restaurant kitchens were always dominated by men, a strange paradox considering that women traditionally ruled the roost in home kitchens.

Over the years, this has changed somewhat, as more and more formidably talented female chefs have taken the helm in restaurant kitchens all over the world, from Clare Smyth, the chef-patron of London’s three Michelin-starred Core by Clare Smyth, to the iconic Anne-Sophic Pic, who blazed a trail for female chefs when she became the first woman in France to earn three Michelin stars for her restaurant Maison Pic.