AN Oxfordshire chef has hit back after tv presenter Monica Galetti said top female chefs should put off thoughts of having a family.
Chef-patron of the Kingham Plough in Kingham, near Chipping Norton, Emily Watkins has quashed the statement - made by the MasterChef: The Professionals judge to the Radio Times - that it becomes a professional chef "career versus having a family".
Ms Watkins, a mother-of-four, told The Observer: “What she said is a little off-putting to girls because it makes you feel that your family and your career are mutually exclusive.
“Although there are times when my husband would say that I have put my job before my family, I am happy with my career. I do not think I could put any more into it or take any more out of it.
“I always wanted to be a chef and I always wanted to be a mum, but the business was my baby and I would never miss a serving.”
Ms Watkins also took the title of BBC Two’s Great British Menu winner in 2014 for cooking up a fish dish at St. Paul’s Cathedral named Fight them on the Beaches.
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