From The Bear to Boiling Point, we can’t get enough of kitchen dramas. But we need to challenge the inherent misogyny in the fictional portrayal of chefs. 

From The Bear to Boiling Point, we canu2019t get enough of kitchen dramas. But we need to challenge the inherent misogyny in the fictional portrayal of chefs. 

Why do we romanticise macho TV chefs so much?

If women ‘belong in the kitchen’, why aren’t we in them professionally?  

There’s an insatiable appetite for male TV chefs. As a society, we can’t get enough of sweary sous chefs and charismatic-but-unstable fine-dining cooks. 

The dark sexism behind our obsession with on-screen macho chefs