![]() In Donovan’s new memoir, Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger, she touches on all aspects of her identity - daughter, friend, personification of work ethic, intellectual, team player, resilient bad ass, confident risk-taker, professional, mother, wife.as well as further exploring the misogyny in the restaurant industry by way of her own experience. ![]() I knew the name Lisa Donovan, I knew she was a renowned pastry chef, but for me, that essay tied it all together and illuminated a woman who had had it with the boys’ club and the pervasive expectation - the given - that women in the restaurant industry are simply there to be, in her words, ‘of use’ to the men. The essay was inspired in the wake of the #MeToo movement - founded by Tarana Burke in 2006 - which came to even greater prominence in 2017 after the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse stories came to light. ![]() Lisa Donovan wrote the James Beard Award winning essay entitled, “Dear Women: Own Your Stories”, for the December 2017 issue of Food and Wine in which she called out the restaurant industry for its inherent misogyny. ![]()
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