Julie Lin MacLeod worked in male-led kitchens for years, and her experiences there – inappropriate sexual advances among them – served as motivation to open her own place, one that would be run by women. “I decided to work hard in order to never be in that toxic masculinity-led environment ever again,” she says.
MacLeod, now patron-chef of Malaysian restaurant Julie’s Kopitiam in Shawlands, Glasgow, says: “I think women are opening up so many places in Scotland because they don’t get the credit they deserve in kitchens led by males at the moment. So they’re thinking, ‘Well, this isn’t going to work for me here. I’m going to open somewhere I can also bring other females up’, and it’s creating this whole new tier of chefs.”
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