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A Chef's Life
Bourbon Country
Season 5
Episode 6
What begins as a dinner at Maker’s Mark in Vivian’s honor ends as an American history lesson. A tour of Maker’s Mark and Jefferson’s distilleries illuminates the differences between whiskey, scotch, and bourbon for Vivian who also learns how Frank and Jesse James fit into Kentucky’s boozy biography.
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Vivian and Ben go to Maple View Dairy to pick up buttermilk for the restaurant.
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Vivian gets a lesson in a 100-year-old tradition of making collard kraut.
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Vivian visits one of the largest sweet potato farms in the country.
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Vivian visits neighbor Marty Harper’s peanut farm just before and during harvest.
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Vivian travels to meet with Glenn Roberts to learn about Carolina Heirloom Rice.
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Ben, Vivian and the twins pick muscadine grapes at a small local vineyard.
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Vivian goes to Cedar Island to explore the new culture of farm-raised oysters.
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Vivian preps for a Southern Foodways Alliance luncheon with the ultimate tomato sandwich.
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Vivian launches the restaurant’s new “whole animal, no waste” program with two pigs.
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The restaurant gears up for a practice service — but nothing is going as planned.
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Vivian and Ben rebuild their restaurant against the Southern harbinger of Spring.
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Chef Vivian and her husband leave NYC to open a restaurant in her North Carolina hometown.