“I really wanted to illuminate an aspect of the culinary world that I felt wasn’t being highlighted: the role of women chefs,” Gallus says. The Heat is a companion piece to your earlier documentary Dish: Women, Waitressing & the Art of Service. In my research for Dish, articles started to come up about the lack of representation and reportage around women chefs and that intrigued me. Male chefs have spoken out, including René Redzepi and David Chang, saying ‘I used to be a bullying, yelling chef. I’ve shot in high-end kitchens in France before with loud male chefs yelling out orders; whereas Anne-Sophie’s kitchen was very quiet.

Source: thestar April 24, 2018 21:00 UTC