[harvest]

Hello Chef Sarah

Still being female in the industry is tough. I would like to know how long did it take you to establish yourself as an accepted and respected female Chef. How many "punches" did you have to either throw or take before knowing you were even established. Many obstacles or few?

[Sara Moulton]

I took a million punches in almost everything I did and almost every day and I used to be very angry about it. but then I realized, only recently that anger doesn't help. It began to seem almost like I was looking to be treated badly.
when julia child died I realized something about her, after the fact -- although she appeared to be a feminist (and indeed she was), she never let that get in her way. she knew what she wanted and she worked hard to get there and she never wasted too much energy thinking about the obstacles in her way (including chauvinistic men) she just got around them.