Top Chef cooks up a Female Winner for first time!

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It's interesting that statistically more women in households do the major cooking then men. Yet the majority of top chefs in the food industry are men. Well, maybe the starched linen tables are finally turning.

For the first time in reality show Top Chef's history, on Wednesdays finale a woman has won the competition! Stephanie Izard took top honors saying she felt she was "representing" her gender in a profession long dominated by men.

The thirty-one year old cooking wiz was known throughout the show for being able to keep a cool head when the temperatures in the kitchen went to a boiling point.

Stephanie plans on using her $100,000 grand prize to open a new restaurant in Chicago by next spring.

Her training came from the Arizona's Scottsdale Culinary Institute. She expressed that she would have loved to have met the butter loving T.V. chef icon Julia Childs.

$100,000 doesn't seem like enough to open a restaurant in Chicago to me, but good luck to Stephanie, I hope she does well!