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Meet one of the newest chefs who added another Michelin star on top of the two she already had for a four-year-old restaurant in London. While there are only a handful number of female chefs in the fine dining scene, Chef Clare Smyth and her passion for culinary art shattered the glass ceiling in January 2021.Chef Smyth, who started cooking at the age of 16, is living proof of sexism behind the kitchen counter.During her interview with The Guardian, she shared a reminiscence of when she first took off her journey in tough, heavily testosterone-driven kitchens. Even Chef Gordon Ramsay, who later made Chef Smyth the head chef of his flagship, told her she won't last a week. After her...

    "This was my first proper French home-style meal I had after moving to Paris. When the barkeep offered me a glass of wine while waiting for a table, I was so scared because of all those horror stories I’d heard about a stranger offering me a drink in Europe, so I just said "no merci". Shortly after, the manager offered me a seat at the bar (making room for me by pushing one of their regulars to the side) and gave me a glass of wine with house-cured olives. That was when I realized they were simply being nice to me because despite my broken French, I still tried to speak to them, and unlike other Parisians, I...

  As the Netflix series "Chef's Table" portrays his journey through European culinary techniques to finally arrive back in the core of authentic Mexican food, you can experience how Chef Olvera celebrates his own definition of the beauty of Mexican cuisine in his restaurant in Mexico City, Pujol.   Find more restaurants featured in the series by searching "Chef's Table" in Mamakoo.𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘰𝘰 - 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺2021, MamakooPhoto: Pujol (@pujolrestaurant), Chef Enrique Olvera (@enriqueolveraf)Happy eating!