Edacious - Food Talk For Gluttons

Real Life Chef Work. "I'm Vivian. And I'm a chef." This is how Chef Vivian Howard starts off every episode of her Peabody award-winning PBS show, A Chef's Life. Being a chef is not glamorous. She wants you to know that. In each episode of the show she presents the real-life triumphs and tragedies behind what it takes to run a successful restaurant. That restaurant being Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, North Carolina which she owns with her husband artist Ben Knight. Owning a restaurant is hard work. A fire breaks out mere months after opening. A customer leaves a scathing review. A beloved sous chef leaves after being part of the kitchen family for years. Ingredients run out. People call in sick. You're cooking for 500 people and the organizers bring you a fryer the size of a saucepan. This is the "glamorous" life of a chef. Not everybody becomes a celebrity. As she says during the interview, "There are more of us than there are of them." Although lately, after four years of an award-winning television progra