Female Chefs Making Their Way in a Man’s World

“For Kwen Liew and Ryunosuke Naito it was the night of their lives. Two days earlier, a team from the Michelin Guide, France’s arbiter of taste, had made a surprise visit to the chefs at their restaurant, Pertinence, in Paris’s 7th

arrondissement, to inform them of their first Michelin star, just 11 months after they opened.

But when they arrived at the ceremony, Liew’s name wasn’t on the list, nor was there a starched white chef’s jacket waiting for her, like there was for all the other recipients of stars. Yet there was one for Naito, her male partner.”