A handful of female chefs in Japan are arranging the rice, slicing the fish and challenging the age-old notion that women can’t make sushi.
Like sumo wrestlers and geisha, Anna Fifield notes, sushi chefs are stereotypical personifications of Japanese culture. Male-dominated culture. Accordingly, sushi chefs should be old, serious men who can wield a knife and deliver a masterful performance.
So why aren’t women typically seen as able? Warm hands and unreliability caused by, you know, from “that time of the month.”
