Gourmet Live’s 50 Women Game-Changers

Women have greatly influenced the evolution of the food community, maybe even more than men. Writer Kate Sekules details 50 of these great female game-changers in a list which may educate you and will definitely inspire. Here is a sample top five. Check out the full list at Gourmet Live.

Julia Child The great Julia needs no introduction. Especially not after the great Meryl played her in the movie.

Alice Waters The great Alice needs no introduction. OK, just this: Chez Panisse, farmers’ markets, locavore movement, Edible Schoolyard. As yet, they’ve only made documentary movies about her life.

Fannie Farmer If it weren’t for her we’d still be cooking with “handfuls” and “pinches.” Farmer’s 1896 Boston Cooking–School Cook Book introduced standardized measurements. She also explained the chemical stuff a century before Harold McGee.

Martha Stewart Cooking as an ingredient of homemaking; homemaking as a craft; crafts as a competitive sport; the art of multimedia saturation—all this we blame on Martha.

M.F.K. Fisher Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher invented food writing. All food bloggers would like to be her.