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Iron Chef America Gender Roles

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Performance of gender in Iron Chef America is not as blatantly displayed but is still present, as demonstrated through the discourse about the chefs and the dishes the chef cooks. Most of the chefs on Iron Chef America are male chefs, which affirms the idea that men dominate the professional culinary world. The strict gender roles become even more apparent when female chefs join the show as shown in the cook-off between Chef Cat Cora and Chef Neal Fraser. Alton Brown address Neal Fraser as Chef Fraser as “the challenger, Chef Neil Fraser” but addresses Cat Cora simply as “Cat Cora.” Even when Alton Brown introduces Chef Cora’s sous chef, he says, “Cat Cora has her sous chef Adam” and simply disregard Cat Cora’s Iron Chef title. The actions
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