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Biscuits & Jam

Vivian Howard’s Tom Thumb Nachos

Biscuits & Jam

Meredith Corporation

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Music

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, talks to chef, restaurateur, author and five-time James Beard Award semi-finalist Vivian Howard about her latest book, her North Carolina roots and the unique experience of both opening and closing a restaurant during the pandemic. For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.9

Welcome to biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

0:45.5

I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living magazine.

0:49.7

My guest today is an acclaimed chef from North Carolina,

0:53.4

and thanks to her hit PBS program, A Chef's Life,

0:59.0

the first woman since Julia Child to win a Peabody Award for culinary broadcasting. Over her career, she's found that the ways Southern food traditions are passed down are just as important as the food itself.

1:07.0

That's the way that so many of these rural recipes are.

1:11.0

They're so simple and so mundane that people never even wrote them down.

1:16.4

There's so many things that are kind of cornerstones of rural culture that no one's ever thought to really celebrate.

1:24.9

Five-time James Beard Award semifinalist Vivian Howard is the restaurateur

1:29.7

behind chef and the farmer, which opened in 2006 in the little town of Kingston, North Carolina,

1:36.6

and has remained one of the most influential and celebrated restaurants in the South.

1:42.0

Another PBS show of Vivians is somewhere south, a culinary

1:46.4

exploration of how Southeast Asian, Hispanic, and other communities are redefining Southern

1:52.2

food. Here's a clip from the show's trailer. What I found in the South is that food tells us

1:57.9

where we came from, where we landed, and what we did when we got there.

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