Vivian Howard is an award-winning chef, television personality, restaurant owner, culinary educator and food writer. She has won a James Beard Award for Outstanding Culinary Host, and her documentary A Chef’s Life won an Emmy and a Peabody Award. Vivian interned at wd~50 and trained as a chef de partie at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Spice Market, and has owned several of her own restaurants in North Carolina including Chef & the Farmer and Lenoir. Vivian is the author of the cookbooks Deep Run Roots and This Will Make It Taste Good and host of the PBS series Somewhere South.
Education
B.A. in English, North Carolina State University, Culinary diploma, Institute of Culinary Arts
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