A cook should always clean their mess in the kitchen. Cooks should clean up their messes. Sometimes the incorrect pronoun is used because the writer doesn't know the gender of the antecedent. A good chef will be proud of their work. A good chef is always proud of his or her cooking.
Good chefs are proud of their recipes.
Most chefs proudly exhibit superior cooking skills. Copyright 1999, BGSU Writing Lab, All Rights Reserved.