Watch A Chef's Life
The television show offers a close look at the milestones and challenges that the couple endure together, still struggling to work together after six years since opening the restaurant.
The show also provides a first-hand look of Chef Howard visiting her neighbors and learning how to make homemade cuisine from old fashioned recipes that she begins to add to her menu. Everything from fried green tomatoes to bacon mayonnaise is made for classic Southern food items that tell a story in each episode.
As the show evolves, the series covers a fire that destroys Chef Howard's restaurant as the couple learn to rebuild their business from the ground up and attempt to survive the challenges that come along.
- PBS
- 4 Seasons, 51 Episodes
- September 10, 2013
- Documentary & Biography, Food
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/10 - Cast: Vivian Howard, Ben Knight
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A Chef's Life Full Episode Guide
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Mayo -- The Mother Sauce
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Vivian is honored at a New York dinner party; and brings with her quintessential Carolina cuisine, including pig tails, ham hocks and fatback. She also visits her publisher, who shares an ambitious itinerary with her.
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Flo and Theo's pre-school class comes to the restaurant, but delayed service makes everyone anxious. In other events, Vivian looks to an old pal for help when a sunchoke dish doesn't turn out.
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Vivian finds out about farm-raised catfish; and a staff member's final day at the restaurant arrives.
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Vivian shows rabbit processing during a trip to the Carolina Meat Conference; and is saddened at the possibility of losing a cherished staff worker at the restaurant.
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Vivian surveys Portland, Ore., before readying the BBQ cabbage for Feast Portland.
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Vivian gets ready for her first journey to Feast Portland in Oregon; and Sam Jones and Miss Lillie exchange old-school cabbage recipes that impress what Vivian fixes for the festival.
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As a visit from her editor accelerates book preparations, Vivian reckons with handing over the restaurant reins to John and Justise. A tutorial in "œbeatin"™ peas" delivered by a 92 year-old expert is an entertaining and therapeutic history lesson.
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After a summer away, Vivian returns to the restaurant and a staff of new faces. She also asks a favor of an avid home chef: test her cookbook recipes.
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Spring onion season is in high gear. Vivian takes a break from writing her first cookbook to prepare a benefit dinner at a training ground for beginning farmers. Even though The Avett Brothers make an appearance, the underdog onion steals the show, playing both star and support.
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Find out how Vivian's whole-cow program, after some initial hiccups, finds its groove. Mrs. Scarlett makes a classic cubed steak, inciting an epic tantrum from Flo. Vivian heads to New York to meet her new editor as work on her cookbook continues.
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Find out how Vivian's whole-cow program, after some initial hiccups, finds its groove. Mrs. Scarlett makes a classic cubed steak, inciting an epic tantrum from Flo. Vivian heads to New York to meet her new editor as work on her cookbook continues.
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Continue Charleston Festival.
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Charleston's Wine Fesitval.
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They Call "˜em "˜Bagas
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Vivian turns up the heat on a dish that features chicken livers drizzled with hot honey.
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A new manager comes to work at the Boiler Room.
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Vivian learns how to make pickled beets.
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Some recipes using okra.
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Vivian learns some new things while visting her friend, Nancy.
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Gettin' Figgy With It
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Pretty In Peach
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Vivian has Mrs. Scarlett and her sister over.
