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A Chef's Life
Preview: Season 4, Episode 8: All Sunchoked Up
Flo and Theo’s pre-school class visit the restaurant for a meal where table manners are the focus, but exceptionally slow service makes everyone antsy, especially Ben. When her sunchoke recipe doesn’t make the grade, Vivian enlists guidance from an old friend.
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Vivian visits Broad Slab Distillery, and talks about the art and soul of white lightning.

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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.