A Chef's Life

Description

Chef Vivian Howard explores farm-fresh cooking, family and community in North Carolina's low country in this half-hour series from South Carolina ETV. Each episode follows Vivian into cornfields, strawberry patches and hog farms as she searches for ingredients for her seasonal menus at her restaurant, Chef & the Farmer, in Kinston, N.C. As the series opens, Vivian and her husband, Ben Knight, find themselves juggling the new restaurant as they raise their twins and build a new home.

Upcoming Episodes

• A Road Trip for Rice

  Heirloom rice; efforts to save heirloom grains; rice dinner at the restaurant; chicken and rice. (30 minutes)

  Schedule	Channel	Audio	HD
  Tuesday, Jul. 15, 2025 @ 02:30AM ET	WNIT HDTV 34.1	Stereo	HD
  Wednesday, Jul. 16, 2025 @ 05:30AM ET	WNIT HDTV 34.1	Stereo	HD

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• Wanted: Broccoli

  Vivian heads to a book launch in New York; food truck is readied for Nashville, Tenn.; a challenging hunt for broccoli. (30 minutes)

  Schedule	Channel	Audio	HD
  Thursday, Jul. 17, 2025 @ 8:30PM ET	WNIT2 34.2	Stereo

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• A Peanut Pastime

  Peanut farm; Pepsi-glazed pork belly with country ham-braised peanuts; boiled peanuts. (30 minutes)

  Schedule	Channel	Audio	HD
  Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2025 @ 02:30AM ET	WNIT HDTV 34.1	Stereo	HD

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• Bourbon Country

  A dinner honoring Vivian; the differences between whiskey, scotch and bourbon; how Frank and Jesse James fit into Kentucky's boozy biography. (30 minutes)

  Schedule	Channel	Audio	HD
  Thursday, Jul. 24, 2025 @ 8:30PM ET	WNIT2 34.2	Stereo

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