The German edition of Gault&Millau honors a woman with the highest award: Douce Steiner from Gasthaus Hirschen in Sulzburg, Baden, who was told at the beginning of her career: “We don’t take girls.”
At some point, Christoph Wirtz, editor-in-chief of the German edition of the Gault&Millau restaurant guide, must have been quite shocked at how subversive his editors assessed the current culinary situation in the nation. So she went straight for a “Chef of the Year” – after 40 years there had only ever been one “Chef of the Year”! Not that no candidates were found during this period, Wirtz writes in the foreword to the new issue that appeared on Monday, but it is also because “the relationship between men and women at the stove has been overwhelmingly one-sided for decades,” which the Top cuisine concerned: “an environment that tolerated women more than encouraged”.