. >> anthony: leo is a friend of bruna's and of marise and denise rache -- owners of d'artagnan, one ated by women. was it particularly hard as women starting in the business 20 years ago? >> marise rache: when we began, there wasn't a lot of women chefs. and we decided to open a restaurant because we like to cook together. >> denise rache: i think nobody trusted us. we have many friends and they have restaurants, they are chefs, and they said "okay, it's a hobby. okay, let them play a little bit. this won't last." and here we are. >> anthony: i mean, in the -- in the states and europe, it was women cooked at home. in restaurants, however, this was man's work. >> denise rache: obviously they would -- the ones that cooked there were men. but they learned all -- everything they learned was from their mothers. >> leonardo paixao: the techniques and everything passed through the generations of women, so that -- that's what it's all about here i think with bruna. >> anthony: bruna makes a point of hiring women, and only women, to work in her restaurants, particularly black women who she fe