A Chef's Life
A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
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A Chef's Life Season 2 | Coming October 2014 | PBS Food
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Seasons
1.Sweet Corn & Expensive Tea
07-09-201330 minChef Vivian Howard and her husband Ben leave New York to open a restaurant in her small North Carolina hometown. Vivian revisits the Southern tradition of “putting up” corn and sha...
2.Strawberry Stay at Home
14-09-201330 minVivian and Ben rebuild their restaurant against the backdrop of the Southern harbinger of spring, the strawberry. Their twins go on their first strawberry-picking excursion, and Vi...
3.Pimp My Grits
01-10-201330 minThe restaurant gears up for a practice service when the new equipment and new menu will be tested in real time - but nothing is going as planned. One of the big changes to the rest...
4.Cracklin' Kitchen
08-10-201330 minVivian goes about christening the restaurant's new "whole animal, no waste" program with two little pigs from Warren Brothers' farm. She uses everything - including the skin - and,...
5.Tomatoes: You Say Heirloom, I Say Old Timey
15-10-201330 minVivian preps for a Southern Foodways Alliance luncheon. Food enthusiasts from around the country are coming to study BBQ & Vivian plans to serve them the ultimate tomato sandwich....
6.The World is Your Oyster
22-10-201330 minVivian goes to Cedar Island to explore the new culture of farm-raised oysters in the Southeast. She and Ben share plans of opening an oyster bar across the street from Chef & the F...
7.Muscadine Time
29-10-201330 minBen, Vivian and the twins pick muscadine grapes at a small local vineyard while learning the history of this native grape. Vivian visits Mike and Gator, her grape suppliers, and ma...
8.Amber Waves of Grain
05-11-201330 minVivian travels to Columbia, South Carolina, to meet with Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills and learns about Carolina heirloom rice growing in fields on the Savannah River. Glenn explain...
9.A Peanut Pastime
12-11-201330 minVivian visits neighbor Marty Harper's peanut farm just before and during harvest. Vivian's dad introduces Ben and Vivian to the old school break snack, a pack of salted peanuts dum...
10.Love Me Some Candied Yams!
19-11-201330 minVivian introduces us to Rob and Amy Hill, proprietors of one of the largest sweet potato farms in the country and two of the restaurant’s best customers. Vivian and her mom, Scarle...
11.Collard Green Queen
21-11-201330 minVivian spends the morning with her neighbors, the Mills brothers, participating in their 100-year-old, all-male family tradition of making collard kraut. Vivian visits Warren at Br...
12.The Buttermilk Belt
28-11-201330 minVivian and Ben go to Maple View Dairy to pick up product for the restaurant. They talk buttermilk with the dairy’s manager, and the noise Ben makes while savoring his cup of the th...
13.Have Yourself Some Moonshine
05-12-201330 minVivian visits Broad Slab Distillery, where they talk about the art and soul of white lightning. The restaurant’s mixologist works moonshine into several new drinks, while the resta...
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