7 Alternate Headlines for USA Today’s ‘Female Chef in Every State’ Story

Today, USA Today released a slideshow called “50 States: 50 Female Chefs,” which helpfully implores readers to “add the 50 female chefs in the photos above to your restaurant radar — there’s one in your state.” That is accurate; at last count, there are at least 50 female chefs who live in the United States.

Apparently that’s news to USA Today — although it probably shouldn’t be — and by cobbling together this list, the newspaper has placed women chefs on the same plane as inanimate items covered by its “50 States” series, including “must-try sandwiches” and recommended ramen restaurants.

Inspired by that reductive decision-making, Eater’s editors would like to offer some potential alternate headlines:

• TIL There’s a Female Chef In Every State!!!!
  Subheadline: THERE’S EVEN ONE IN IOWA
• You’ll Never Believe What States We Found Female Chefs In
  Subheadline: ZOMG all of them
• Warning: There Are at Least 50 Female Chefs, Including One in Your State
• We Tried to Find a Female Chef In Every State. You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next.
• Here Now, Proof That Female Chefs Exist, Once and For All
• Binders Full of Women, Restaurant Edition
• Unnecessary Slideshow Added to Internet

• A Female Chef in Each State [USA Today]
• We Once Again Ask Why There Is a ‘Best Female Chef’ Award [E]