Melissa Kelly of Primo represented Maine as one of the "Women in Whites" at the recent James Beard Foundation's fall gala in NYC, which Food Arts recapped. Kelly cooked a main course of "Jamison Farm lamb duo of saddle and en croûte with truffled red kuri squash." On the issue of gender bias in the culinary world, she says she's treated equally today, but "[w]hen I started out, you had to prove yourself and didn't get respect automatically, as men did." [Food Arts via Eater National]
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