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Our coverage of that same party mentioned the appearance of Madhur Jaffrey, who, regardless of the fact she’s known more as a food writer than a chef, has taught more people to cook good food than any number of debonair or bad-boy, mustachioed chefs in the city. On the subject of gender and cooking, one of the city’s more prominent female chefs—Anne Burrell— had just opened Centro Vinoteca in 2007 when we interviewed her, and she weighed in on the subject of women chefs:

[T]here’s been this whole big thing about female chefs, and I don’t really know why. I’m a girl, and I’m a cook- I just like to cook, and I don’t like to worry about the distinctions. We’re just supposed to make good food.

Burrell now has her own television show. Another indication that many women chefs are seemingly more focused on getting work done can be seen in their laconic (read: absence of bombastic, speculative grandiosity) responses to our call for 2009 food predictions. Are female chefs ignored by the press? More reading here, and, as always, Hell Yeah Lady Chefs.

Last night Gourmet magazine held a big party at the soon-to-open Shang, a new restaurant helmed by the acclaimed, formerly Toronto-based chef Susur Lee. In an uncharacteristically non-restaurant world domineering move, Lee closed his Toronto flagship restaurant (called Susur) in May in order to concentrate fully on his New York opening. Shang, which means growing upwards, will open next month.