Gail Simmons: 'The Food Industry Now Means So Many Things'

Catching up to a great interview published before the holidays.

GailSimmonsTopChefIt seems like a perfect alignment of media ingredients. Gail Simmons, star of Bravo’s Top Chef (pictured), profiled and interviewed by an outlet named WTOP.

From a FishbowlNY point of view, it’s even more delicious that the history of D.C.-area FM radio station WTOP tracks back to origins in Brooklyn in the 1920s. WTOP Living editor Rachel Nania gathered all kinds of fascinating tidbits from Simmons, a graduate of Montreal’s McGill University, for her recent piece. Including this observation about why the restaurant industry has been traditionally so male-dominated:

Simmons says it’s no surprise that the restaurant world was — and still is — predominantly male.

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