Fed up of Sexism in the Kitchen? #MeToo

Roo Hasan @pompomcooks
8 min readMay 19, 2019
Hanna Barczyk illustration for Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/10/chinas-metoo-activists-have-transformed-a-generation/

I’ll begin by saying that the tide is changing. The conventional, outdated and downright dull view of gender within the food industry is slowly but surely being washed up. Season 6 of Chef’s Table is 50% directed by women, with 50% female chefs, there is a rise in female specific media platforms and in recent news, a proposed bill would require training restaurant employees in Illinois to undergo sexual harassment

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Roo Hasan @pompomcooks

Half English/half Indian expat, living & cooking in the mountains, Chamonix. Private Chef, writer, painter, mountain biker, over-thinker. @pompomcooks