A Road Trip for Rice
chef's life

Vivian 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 explains Anson Mills' efforts to save heirloom grains and discusses the importance of ingredient biodiversity. Glenn's passion inspires Vivian to host a "rice dinner" at Chef & the Farmer, where each course centers around this grain. Scarlett, Vivian's mom, schools her daughter on how to make the chicken and rice she grew up eating.

Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 108

About Chef's Life:

A Chef's Life is a new food/reality series featuring Chef Vivian Howard.

Vivian was making a name for herself in New York City, when her father, a hog farmer, offered to get her started in her own restaurant.

The catch? It would be located in her home town, a place she swore she would never return --- the Deep South.

The series plunges audiences into the kitchen of the restaurant Chef and The Farmer, a highbrow restaurant located in Kinston, NC, one of the most impoverished communities in the U.S.

When Vivian arrives home, she begs local farmers to grow fennel, lemongrass and Jerusalem artichokes --- none of which are native to the region.

Soon, she realizes that the cooking techniques she learned in New York could be applied to her "grandmother's ingredients," the bounty grown by local farmers.

Vivian's recipes are exquisitely assembled to bring out the best in the locally grown fresh ingredients.

This is real "southern cooking," anyone can implement into their own lives.

Six years in, Vivian has become a pillar in this small community, with the restaurant winning accolades across the country.

As the series opens, she and her husband Ben are juggling the business and raising twins, when a devastating kitchen fire destroys the restaurant overnight.

What happens next is a true testament to Southern grit.


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Sun, Oct 1 6:00 P.M. A Food Truck and a Pear Tree     NH Create (11.4)
Tue, Oct 3 2:30 A.M. A Food Truck and a Pear Tree     NHPBS (11.1)
Sun, Oct 8 6:00 P.M. WANTED: Broccoli     NH Create (11.4)
Tue, Oct 10 2:30 A.M. Chasing Trout     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Oct 11 4:30 A.M. King Cornbread     NHPBS (11.1)
Sun, Oct 15 6:00 P.M. Bourbon Country     NH Create (11.4)
Sun, Oct 22 6:00 P.M. Persimmon Style     NH Create (11.4)
Wed, Oct 25 4:30 A.M. Apples     NHPBS (11.1)
Sun, Oct 29 6:00 P.M. Chasing Trout     NH Create (11.4)


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