The Fourth Helping Of A Chef's Life: Season Four Debuts

WUNC | By Laura Lee,

Published September 1, 2016 at 12:19 PM EDT

Cynthia Hill, left, producer and director of "A Chef's Life," and Vivian Howard, right, chef and owner of The Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, N.C.

Host Frank Stasio talks with chef Vivian Howard and film producer Cynthia Hill.

Chef Vivian Howard stars in the fourth season of her PBS show, "A Chef’s Life," which debuts later this month. The premiere precedes the release of a Howard’s first cookbook, "Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes From My Corner of the South."

A Chef’s Life offers a unique view on the life and work of a female chef and entrepreneur in eastern North Carolina while tracing some of the state's dying foodways.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Howard and show producer and director Cynthia Hill about the new season.

Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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