A Chef's Life
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A Chef's Life

Join Chef Vivian Howard's personal and culinary journey from the top restaurants in New York to her return to Eastern North Carolina as she explores the rich bounty of farm fresh cooking, family and community. Each episode follows Vivian out of the kitchen and into cornfields, strawberry patches and hog farms as she hunts down the ingredients that inspire her seasonal menus.
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Epizody

  1. S1 E1Sweet Corn and Expensive Tea

    6. září 2013
    25 min
    TV-G
    Chef Vivian Howard and her husband Ben leave New York to open a restaurant in her small North Carolina hometown. As the episode concludes, a devastating setback threatens their new life.
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  2. S1 E2Strawberry Stay at Home

    13. září 2013
    25 min
    TV-G
    Vivian and Ben rebuild their restaurant against the backdrop of the Southern harbinger of spring, the strawberry. Vivian and a friend develop a recipe for Coconut Cornbread Strawberry Shortcake with Basil Whipped Cream.
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  3. S1 E3Pimp My Grits

    1. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    The restaurant gears up for a practice service where the new menu will be tested in real time. One addition to the restaurant’s menu is a section called “Pimp My Grits,” where Vivian exalts the ingredient in four distinct ways.
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  4. S1 E4Cracklin' Kitchen

    1. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian goes about christening the restaurant’s new “whole animal, no waste” program with two little pigs from Warren Brothers’ farm. She uses everything and shows us how to make her version of sweet potatoes with cracklins.
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  5. S1 E5Tomatoes...You Say Heirloom, I Say Old Timey

    1. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian 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.
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  6. S1 E6The World is Your Oyster

    1. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian explores the new culture of farm-raised oysters in the Southeast. She and Ben share plans of opening an oyster bar in hopes it will be a place that adds character and variety to the town’s “dining scene.”
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  7. S1 E7Muscadine Time

    1. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Ben, Vivian and the twins pick muscadine grapes at a small local vineyard while learning the history of this native grape. Back at the restaurant, Vivian makes a pizza with mulled muscadines.
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  8. S1 E8A Road Trip for Rice

    1. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian travels to South Carolina, to meet with Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills and learns about Carolina Heirloom Rice growing in fields on the Savannah River. Glenn explains Anson Mills’ efforts to save heirloom grains.
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  9. S1 E9A Peanut Pastime

    11. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian 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 dumped into a Pepsi in a glass bottle.
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  10. S1 E10Love Me Some Candied Yams!

    11. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian introduces us to the proprietors of one of the largest sweet potato farms in the country. Vivian make her grandmother’s candied yams and Vivian later re-imagines these for the restaurant with texture, sorghum and pecans.
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  11. S1 E11Collard Green Queen

    11. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian spends the morning with her neighbors, the Mills brothers, participating in their 100-year-old, all-male family tradition of making collard kraut.
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  12. S1 E12The Buttermilk Belt

    11. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian 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 thick liquid annoys his wife.
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  13. S1 E13Have Yourself Some Moonshine

    11. prosince 2013
    24 min
    TV-G
    Vivian 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 restaurant staff struggles through the holiday party season.
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