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Female Chef 2014, Cue Mixed Feelings  (Image via Veuve Cliquot)
This year’s Veuve Cliquot World’s Best Female Chef title goes to
São Paulo, Brazil’s Helena Rizzo, who helms the kitchen at Mani.
The Best Female Chef designation is named by the same parent
organization who puts out the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list
annually, and there has been well-documented kerfuffle around
whether the designation of Best “Female” Chef should even exist.
We’d never take the thrill of an award away from any lady chef,
but we will huff passive aggressively over some of the language
in her Veuve Cliquot bio (huffy emphasis ours):  After a brief
stint running the kitchen of the city’s Na Mata Café, the young
Rizzo embarked on a culinary grand tour around Italy and Spain
that culminated at seminal Girona restaurant El Celler de Can
Roca. It was here that she met her future husband, the Spaniard
Daniel