Vivian Howard

Host and award-winning chef Vivian Howard explores the lesser known roots of southern food, cooking and living. Howard also examines cross-cultural dishes, such as dumplings and beans and rice, enjoyed by diverse communities. Breaking bread with farm laborers, doctors, entrepreneurs, ecologists, chefs, grandmothers and more unearths the complex values, identities and storied pasts of the southern United States.

The show plunges audiences into the kitchen of a high-end restaurant located in the low country of eastern North Carolina. It follows the trials and travails of Chef Vivian Howard and her husband, Ben Knight, and their farm-to-table restaurant, Chef & the Farmer, exploring both traditional and modern applications of quintessential Southern ingredients. Vivian's skill in the kitchen is an equal match for her charismatic personality, radiating behind crystal grey eyes.