This week we chatted to chef Ana Cortés and Ilanit Bard, owner of Soigné Hospitality about, amongst many other things, living “with a thick accent”. 

Ana, - originally from a small village in the southern Spanish countryside – is today the head chef at the hatted Chinese restaurant Lee Ho Fook in Melbourne, as well as the first female President of Eat Spanish, a non for profit association created for the promotion of Spanish cuisine in Australia. 

Ilanit, grew up in a multicultural Jewish family in France, from an African mother and a Middle Eastern father. When she landed in Australia she joined the world of hospitality and in less than five years she went from being a kitchen porter to becoming the General manager of one of the best restaurants in Australia, Lûmé. 

Today, Ilanit is the founder of her own consultancy firm, Soigné, as well as co-founder of The Thick Accents Project, a celebration of migrant women in the hospitality industry with a focus on what thick accents represent.

We wanted to learn what it was like for both of them to live with a thick accent and to navigate the labels that are generally attached to migrant women everywhere in the world.

 Don't miss this fascinating, very casual, and very honest, four-way conversation!

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