Following the release of its “Gods of Food” issue last November, TIME found itself in hot water. Not a single female chef made the list of tastemakers or placed on its lineage chart of culinary influencers. When pressed about it, TIME’s former news editor Howard Chua-Eoan explained it to Eater this way: “I think it reflects one very harsh reality of the current chefs’ world, which unfortunately has been true for years: It’s still a boys’ club.”

Riverfront News interviewed women chefs in St. Louis and here is their take:  Women Chefs Talk