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Newscast, listen on BBC Sounds. Women's place is in the kitchen as long it seems as it's not a restaurant kitchen.

Well that made sense in the early centuries of restaurant

history when few women worked outside the home, but the peculiarly

a military organization of the restaurant kitchen, only professional kitchens and military forces have brigades

kept women out long after they'd enter the workforce in most other areas of life.

Well things are changing but old attitudes still have a lot of life in them as we know

from Michelin-Stard Chef Tom Carriage's recent well-publicised remarks.

Girls can bring a little civility to the professional kitchen,

but kitchens can be war zones,

and women, it seems, aren't likely to have the fire in the belly necessary to cope with

dinner service. Is that really the way it is? Women making a necessarily macho

hard-driven place just a little softer, a little more acceptable.

Today we have a roster, practically a brigade, of some of the best chefs in Britain and the

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