Chef and Farmer
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Vivian Howard originally made a name for herself in the Manhattan
restaurant world and with her own gourmet delivery service. Acclaim and
potential investors poured in, but it was the offer from her own
parents that called to her the loudest. They would help her build a
restaurant — but with one catch. She had to open it back home in
Eastern North Carolina, a place to which she swore she would never
return.
And so The Chef & the
Farmer,
located in Kinston, North Carolina, was born. Six years in, Vivian and
her restaurant have won numerous accolades, including her selection as
a James Beard semi-finalist, but the challenges continue. As the series
opens, Vivian and Ben are juggling the restaurant, raising twins and
anxiously building their own home — right next door to her parents.
Note
that I've posted this in the "Idyll"
rather than "Food"
file.
Perhaps my pleasure with this PBS series is due to my family's love for
Nags Head and indeed the entire East North Carolina region. At
one
point we loved all of North Carolina and pondered a retired life there,
but our last trip to the Raleigh region showed it had become a traffic
choked hell, akin to Virginia Beach. And then they started
electing
Democrats.
I avoided "A Chef's Life" for
a long time because, duh, the genre has
exploded, and most are the same. But this has a sweetness
to it that
I cannot get enough of. I adore these peole and would like to be
their
neighbors, and spend time every day at the arster bar. More and
more
I'm hankering to head south. This one could happen,
because seeing
the kids would only require a 6 hour drive each way. For them, LOL.
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