Skirt Steak Author Charlotte Druckman on What Drives Women in the Kitchen

Charlotte Druckman's Skirt Steak takes a frank and freewheeling look at the experience of women in the restaurant industry. Druckman, a NYC-based journalist, talked to more than 70 female chefs about family, finances and the price of ambition to find out how, to crib from her subtitle, they "stand the heat and stay in the kitchen." Their responses offer illuminating insight into the realities of restaurant life, the curse of the "pastry ghetto...