A Recipe for Change: The LEE Initiative’s Women Culinary and Spirits Program

The chefs took part in cooking seminars and some friendly competitions in the state-of-the-art GE Monogram Experience Center. While the world went into quarantine and the restaurant industry teetered on the brink of collapse, Chef Edward Lee and Lindsey Ofcacek rolled up their sleeves, created a network of rescue kitchens and expanded their 4-year-old, fiercely-local Woman Chefs of Kentucky program into a national platform for gender equality. And that’s just the appetizer. Last year, while many of us were overwhelmed by panic and the barrage of bad news, Edward Lee (chef/owner of 610 [...]