At the recent International Association of Culinary Professionals in New York, a panel of culinary luminaries including Betty Fussell, Nathalie Dupree, and Darra Goldstein shed light on the struggle women faced a mere 40 years ago to secure recognition for teaching cooking as a bona fide profession. Dupree, the grande dame of Southern cooking, participated in a biscuit throw down in our first Flavor Foray in Charleston. The article was first published on: www.culepi.com