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zazen

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3. how did that particular apprenticeship culture get so abusive?

Reply to pipoman (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 09:44 AM

Nov 2013

Seriously--I know so little about it, but this reminds me of all of the discussions in the 80s and 90s (I worked in a med school so that's how I came in contact with it) about how med school interning and residencies involved being verbally abused with impunity by attendings and grueling hours, and how that contributed to women opting out of the worst offending fields, like surgery.

I know there's been an effort in the past 20 years to reform a lot of this. Why hasn't this occurred with culinary schools, do you think?

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Why Do Female Chefs Get Overlooked? [View all] theHandpuppet Nov 2013 OP

I think they do. In_The_Wind Nov 2013 #1

As an pipoman Nov 2013 #2

how did that particular apprenticeship culture get so abusive? zazen Nov 2013 #3

I isn't as much the schools as the commercial kitchens pipoman Nov 2013 #4

thx--never knew that; n/t zazen Nov 2013 #5

Alan Richman's piece at the OP is good Gormy Cuss Nov 2013 #6