A Chef's Life — Season 1, Episode 9: A Peanut Pastime

Episode synopsis

Vivian visits neighbor Marty Harper's peanut farm just before and during harvest. Vivian's dad introduces Ben and Vivian to the old school break snack, a pack of salted peanuts dumped into a Pepsi in a glass bottle. At the restaurant, Vivian translates the snack into Pepsi glazed pork belly with country ham braised peanuts. Vivian reinvents the popular Southern snack, boiled peanuts, for the local farmers' market.

About A Chef's Life

A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Sweet Corn & Expensive Tea
• E2Strawberry Stay at Home
• E3Pimp My Grits
• E4Cracklin' Kitchen
• E5Tomatoes: You Say Heirloom, I Say Old Timey
• E6The World is Your Oyster
• E7Muscadine Time
• E8Amber Waves of Grain
• E10Love Me Some Candied Yams!
• E11Collard Green Queen
• E12The Buttermilk Belt
• E13Have Yourself Some Moonshine