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More and more women are bucking the old stereotype that they are not strong enough or creative enough to wear the chef's toque and lead a kitchen staff...
...chefs. Women are cooks. Or at least that was once the conventional view. No longer. Now, whether in their own restaurants or as employees, women across the U.S. have earned their toques as chefs: the leaders of kitchen staffs, not merely cooks who work at their own stations. To suggest a woman as chef even ten years ago would have prompted laughter. Women, went the old calumny, are not creative enough to be chefs. And anyway, how could they lift those hot 60-qt. stockpots? "Very carefully," says Joan Woodhull, 20, a recent graduate of the Culinary Institute of America...
...experiment has been called a potential "cornerstone in biology." Maybe so, but it will hardly make genetic engineering a kitchen-table technology. Advocates of gene transplants have long pointed to the potential benefits of altered animals -- disease-resistant pigs, fast-growing cows and the like. Medical researchers are already using engineered mice to study the mechanics of cancer and heart disease. But genetic engineering is a process that involves many difficult steps, and the new breakthrough will at best simplify just one of them...
...simmering sauce of endives, smoked pancetta and double cream fills the wood-beamed Venetian kitchen with its aroma. Bits of baby lamb are soaking up the flavor of juniper berries and white wine. Strings of homemade tonnarelli are drying nearby. Standing over her restaurant-size range, Marcella Hazan looks with mock astonishment at six blushing students. "You don't cook? What do you do? Starve?" It is her standard line when Americans complain that they don't have time to prepare real meals. "I despair," she says, waving a sauce-laden wooden spoon...
With her best-selling books and private cooking lessons in her Venetian kitchen, Marcella Hazan makes the case for food that "matters...