Vivian Howard

Vivian Howard is an American chef, restaurateur, author and television host. From 2013 to 2018, Howard hosted the PBS television series ''A Chef's Life'' focusing on the ingredients and cooking traditions of eastern North Carolina — using the backdrop of the ''Chef & the Farmer'' restaurant in Kinston, North Carolina, which Howard co-owned with her then-husband and business partner, artist Ben Knight.

In 2014, Howard was the first woman since Julia Child to win a Peabody Award for a cooking program. In 2017, she authored the cookbook-memoir ''Deep Run Roots,'' and in 2020 ''This Will Make It Taste Good: A New Path to Simple Cooking.''

In 2023, Howard wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times, outlining the foundational problems with the current restaurant business model, many that contributed directly to the post-pandemic temporary closure of ''The Chef and the Farmer'' — which she plans to reopen in late 2023 in a re-envisioned format. Provided by Wikipedia