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Big thank you to Anna, Sydney, Tim, Danielle and Sam for sharing their stories that made this piece possible. Also thank you to Laurie and Erin for advising me throughout this process.

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Here are the sources I pulled from while researching and producing this piece.

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Online Publications:

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http://rocunited.org/2014/10/new-report-the-glass-floor-sexual-harassment-in-the-restaurant-industry/

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http://rocunited.org/publications/ending-jim-crow-in-americas-restaurants/

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/12/14/570863486/allegations-against-celebrity-chefs-reveal-abuse-in-the-restaurant-industry

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/The-MeToo-movement-and-the-restaurant-industry-12550746.php

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/11/business/tipping-sexual-harassment.html

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https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/rebecca-traister-this-moment-isnt-just-about-sex.html

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http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/01/sexual-assault-men-chefs-response.html

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/rape-in-the-storage-room-groping-at-the-bar-why-is-the-restaurant-industry-so-terrible-for-women/2017/11/17/54a1d0f2-c993-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html

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Podcast Inspirations:

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Five Women:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/640/five-women

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The Callout:  https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/601971617/the-callout

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No (2017):

https://www.theheartradio.org/no-episodes/

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#MeToo in Restaurants:

https://www.wnyc.org/story/metoo-restaurants-banning-books-prisons-trumps-epa/

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Only White Men Get to Be Geniuses:

http://www.racistsandwich.com/episodes/2017/12/5/e41-only-white-men-get-to-be-geniuses-w-jen-agg

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Journal Articles:

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Bailey, Alison, and Jacquelyn Zita. "The reproduction of whiteness: Race and the regulation of the gendered body." Hypatia 22.2 (2007).

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Cairns, Kate, Josée Johnston, and Shyon Baumann. "Caring about food: Doing gender in the foodie kitchen." Gender & Society 24.5 (2010): 591-615.

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Chen, Ching-In, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, eds. The revolution starts at home: Confronting intimate violence within activist communities. Brooklyn, NY: South End Press, 2011.

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Ferguson, Kennan. "Intensifying taste, intensifying identity: Collectivity through community cookbooks." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37.3 (2012): 695-717.

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Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "Female masculinity and phallic women—Unruly concepts." Feminist Studies 38.3 (2012): 597-624.

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Giuffre, Patti A., and Christine L. Williams. "Boundary lines: Labeling sexual harassment in restaurants." Gender & Society8.3 (1994): 378-401.

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Hall, Elaine J. "Waitering/waitressing: Engendering the work of table servers." Gender & Society 7.3 (1993): 329-346.

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Taylor, Chloë. "Foucault, feminism, and sex crimes." Hypatia24.4 (2009): 1-25.

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Books:

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Fine, Gary Alan. Kitchens: The culture of restaurant work. Univ of California Press, 2008.

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Harris, Deborah A., and Patti Giuffre. Taking the heat: Women chefs and gender inequality in the professional kitchen. Rutgers University Press, 2015.

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Burroway, Rebekah. "Gender and food: from production to consumption and after." Advances in Gender Research 22 (2016).

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Williams-Forson, Psyche, and Rebecca Sharpless. Dethroning the deceitful pork chop: Rethinking African American foodways from slavery to Obama. University of Arkansas Press, 2015.

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