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A chef complaining about how people (women) feed themselves and their familes these days is like a race car driver complaining about how people prefer small, economic cars instead of what he drives.
We all have to eat. Everyday. A chef cooks for work, for people's special occasions. Making women feel inadequate because they don't have the creativity, money or time to cook beautiful meals everyday is just plain mean. The fact that over the centuries, busy tired women have managed to invent national cuisines anyway is a testament to the fact that some women's creativity has overcome huge obstacles.
I have always interpreted the addage " all great chefs are men" as an example of how sexist the world is, not as how men are innately great cooks.
