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A Chef's Life
Pimp My Grits
Season 1
Episode 3
The restaurant gears up for a practice service where the new equipment and new menu will be tested in real time — but nothing is going as planned. One of the big changes to the restaurant’s menus is the addition of a section called “Pimp My Grits,” where Vivian exalts the lowly, quintessentially Southern ingredient in four distinct ways.
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Vivian visits Broad Slab Distillery, and talks about the art and soul of white lightning.
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Vivian travels to meet with Glenn Roberts to learn about Carolina Heirloom Rice.
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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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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.