Apr 23, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 12 segments
Rose Previte is the owner of Washington, D.C.’s acclaimed restaurants and bars Compass Rose, MICHELIN-starred Maydan, Medina, and Maydan Market in Los Angeles. She is also the author of a cookbook…
Rose PreviteGuestSteve PalmerHostLet me ask you, during that time, knowing there wasn't much of a scene, I've heard a lot of friends, chefs, females, talk, you know, the industry historically being a male-dominated business.
You're in a city that you said it's either we're either eating fried chicken or we're going to the steakhouses on Capitol Hill.
Did you have a sense that you were doing something that was not a lot of women were doing? Pioneering, groundbreaking, like that you were bucking the norm.
I was a general contractor for my first project because I couldn't afford one.
And you feel... from everyone that their belief in you is definitely, the implicit bias is there, right? Like I had a lot of men just tap me, you know, the equivalent of tapping me on the head and being like, oh, you wanna open a restaurant.
You know, so I got that, you know, and I did, and God bless, you know, rest his soul in peace.
But, you know, the only two books I read was Kitchen Confidential and Blood, Bones, Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton.
Let me ask you, during that time, knowing there wasn't much of a scene, I've heard a lot of friends, chefs, females, talk, you know, the industry historically being a male-dominated business.
You're in a city that you said it's either we're either eating fried chicken or we're going to the steakhouses on Capitol Hill.
Did you have a sense that you were doing something that was not a lot of women were doing? Pioneering, groundbreaking, like that you were bucking the norm.
I was a general contractor for my first project because I couldn't afford one.
And you feel... from everyone that their belief in you is definitely, the implicit bias is there, right? Like I had a lot of men just tap me, you know, the equivalent of tapping me on the head and being like, oh, you wanna open a restaurant.
You know, so I got that, you know, and I did, and God bless, you know, rest his soul in peace.
But, you know, the only two books I read was Kitchen Confidential and Blood, Bones, Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton.
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