Kitchens, kitchens.

"The kitchen can be a brutal world of daily bullying and humiliations. Take Mathieu, a 15-year-old aspiring chef who arrives eager for his internship. 'He was like a petri dish of the workplace's toxins,' writes Buford. 'He had arrived innocent, got roundly abused, and was now trying to find his place as an abuser.'

Then there is the shy Hortense, the only woman in the kitchen. She's subjected to the kind of harassment and jokes one can only imagine in a macho, French kitchen of the pre-#metoo era. But Hortense, like everyone else, has to suck it up and show rigueur for the good of the kitchen. And the axiom 'What goes on in the kitchen stays there' prevails above all."

~ Eleanor Beardsley

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/852496954/in-dirt-bill-buford-is-able-to-offer-an-authentic-adventure-in-french-cooking