If you ask six chefs what makes a great dish, you’d expect six different answers. But for the women on this list, it always comes back to the same thing: the ingredients. How they use those ingredients, however, couldn’t be more different. One cooks over open flames in the Irish wilderness, another brings the flavours of Freetown to Kent. Different cultures, different techniques, but each of them knows that great cooking starts long before anything hits the pan. These are six female chefs we’re expecting great things from.