Celebrated chef, cookbook author, television personality, and restaurateur Vivian Howard’s culinary expertise stretches across multiple mediums while remaining deeply rooted in her Southern upbringing. An author of two cookbooks, her first, Deep Run Roots: Stories & Recipes from My Corner of the South, is a New York Times-bestseller and was named “Cookbook of the Year” by International Association of Culinary Professionals. Vivian is also the creator and host of public television shows Somewhere South and A Chef’s Life, for which she has won Peabody, Emmy and James Beard Awards. Vivian’s culinary expertise is also on full display at her restaurants Lenoir and Hot and Handy, both located in Charleston, SC, and Chef & the Farmer in Kinston, NC.
In this episode, Vivian joins Steve in a conversation that covers her career working in advertising in New York City to creating a side-hustle soup business to returning to her home state of North Carolina to open her first restaurant, which kicked off a journey of building and balancing multiple projects.
Thank you to Stolon Food Lab for allowing us to use the space to film this episode.
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