A luminary in the
high-testosterone
restaurant world (she’s
the only woman in
the U.S. ever awarded
three Michelin stars),
San Francisco chef
Dominique Crenn
made what she says
seemed the obvious
decision after her
invasive breast cancer
diagnosis this spring:
She went public with
it. “For all the women
who have been on
this journey before
me and now with
me, my heart is with
you,” Crenn wrote her
270,000 Insta gram fol-
lowers. The answering
roar of love and acco-
lades is still carrying
her through. “Guess
what? I’m strong,” she
says. “Not everything is
happy, you know? But
I’m very thankful and
very grateful. Being
in the public eye was
never my main thing.
My main thing is always
to fight the fight.”UNITED STATES
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