“I want people to understand the gravity of this, and if it’s happened to me I know it’s happened to so many other women.” — Victoria James (Geturgrapeon) on misogyny in restaurants
Eater: The book describes some truly terrible behavior in the wine and restaurant industry, and you use aliases for both people and the wine school where you took classes. What was your approach to thinking about aliases versus naming names?When I first wrote the manuscript all the names were the same. I presented it to the publisher, and then the lawyers looked over it and they were like, “Yeah, we’re going to change that.
Do you think there are unique challenges to being a young woman in wine, or are the problems you describe symptomatic of fine dining more generally? As you detail in the book, you started working in restaurants as a teenager. What changes have you seen in the culture since then? It didn’t really hit me for three years, until I was recording the audiobook and I had to read it and I was crying and running to the restroom to puke. Only now do I realize the weight of it. This happens to so many women, and there’s this shame and humiliation which I still feel all the time. But I hope that by speaking on it, it will give more women the courage to do so and slowly erase the stigma.
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