The series premiered September 7, 2013, and its final episode, a series special called The Final Harvest, aired on October 22, 2018. A Chef’s Life was primarily filmed at the Chef & The Farmer restaurant in Kinston, North Carolina. Vivian Howard is head chef and her husband, Ben Knight, is general manager.
But she has a new show in the works. The production company behind Vivian Howard’s A Chef’s Life — the highly acclaimed PBS documentary series, which follows Howard as she searches for new ingredients for her North Carolina restaurant Chef & the Farmer —has announced that after five seasons, the show is coming to a close.
Vivian Howard. A Chef’s Life, the Peabody Award-winning PBS series in which host Vivian Howard spotlights Southern ingredients in the small town of Kinston, North Carolina, won’t return for a sixth season, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.
A Chef’s Life ended up airing one additional season, for a total of five seasons, plus the “Final Harvest” special. (All of those seasons are on DVD.) Chef Vivian Howard, star of A Chef’s Life and urban legend at Food Network. (Photo by Rex Miller)
What award did Chef’s Life win?
It won a Peabody Award in 2013 “for its refreshingly unsensational depiction of life and work in a modern restaurant—with generous sides of Southern folkways and food lore.”. In 2018, A Chef’s Life won the Daytime Emmy® for Outstanding Culinary Program.
A Chef’s Life was produced by Markay Media in association with South Carolina ETV. The series was directed and produced by Cynthia Hill with Rex Miller as director of photography and co-producer. Vivian Howard was writer and producer. Tom Vickers was editor. Amy Shumaker was executive-in-charge for SCETV.
How many seasons of Chef’s Life did Vivian Howard have?
On Monday, October 22, Vivian Howard said farewell to A Chef’s Life with a final, hour-long “Harvest Special” episode—the culmination of five seasons of the series that, when it debuted on SCETV in 2013, immediately established itself as unlike just about any …
Shot documentary-style by filmmaker Cynthia Hill, ACL episodes pulled double-duty, chronicling both Howard’s day-to-day challenges of running a restaurant, The Chef and the Farmer, in Kinston, North Carolina, and one ingredient or dish indigenous to the eastern part of the Tar Heel State—fish stew, applejacks, and Tom Thumb among them.
Droves of visitors eager to eat Howard’s food began to descend on little Kinston, leading to the revitalization of the town. Howard’s 2016 cookbook, Deep Run Roots, became a best seller. And the show’s success—including a Daytime Emmy Award, a James Beard Award, and a Peabody Award—allowed Howard to evolve from a talented chef expediting in …
Who is the host of Chef’s Life?
Vivian Howard. Josh Woll. A Chef’s Life, the Peabody Award-winning PBS series in which host Vivian Howard spotlights Southern ingredients in the small town of Kinston, North Carolina, won’t return for a sixth season, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.
PBS will reportedly close out A Chef’s Life, which saw its final season air last fall, with a one-hour “Harvest Special” episode that is scheduled to broadcast nationally on Monday, October 22.
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