Food: The Fantastic and Underutilized Role of Pork | Vivian Howard

About the Guest Vivian Howard is an award-winning cookbook author, TV personality, chef, and restaurateur. Her first cookbook, Deep Run Roots: Stories & Recipes from My Corner of the South (2016), is a New York Times bestseller and was named “Cookbook of the Year” by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She created and stars in public television shows Somewhere South and A Chef’s Life, for which she has won Peabody, Emmy and James Beard awards. Vivian runs the restaurants Chef & the Farmer in Kinston, NC; Benny’s Big Time in Wilmington, NC; Handy & Hot and Lenoir (opening December 2020) in Charleston, SC. In October 2020, Vivian released her second cookbook, This Will Make It Taste Good: A New Path to Simple Cooking. Vivian Howard What can you learn from this episode of Popular Pig? Vivian Howard’s Background and Journey to FoodThe role that the swine industry has played in her lifeHow studying in Argentina and New York changed her perspective and goalsHow she started her restaurants and created the greatest food experience in Eastern North CarolinaThe amazing versatility of pork and how you can make it even betterHow to best compliment pork with other side dishes or cooking methodsThe missing link to greatly increase domestic pork consumptionVivian Howard’s “Golden Chop”