Please join us in welcoming award winning chef Vivian Howard of Kinston’s “Chef & the Farmer” and PBS’s “A Chef’s Life” for a special community event. Vivian, an advocate for local foods, will speak on connecting food, family and community.

The event is open to the public. No registration or tickets are required. The first 100 attendees will also receive a copy of Vivian’s new book, Deep Run Roots.

About Vivian Howard

“Writing a description of yourself is really hard. But under instruction to list the things that make me, me – I’d have to say I’m a first time author whose young adult self dreamt of being a writer. I’m the mother of a twin boy and girl who once doubted her maternal instincts. I’m a chef who cooks for therapy. I’m a lucky daughter who counts her parents among her friends. I’m a strong-willed wife who loves her husband but often struggles to work with him. And I’m a television personality who can’t bear to look at herself in pictures. My greatest strengths are fearlessness, creativity, enthusiasm and humor. My most frustrating weaknesses are patience, organization and numbers. I always thought winning awards was for someone else and have been genuinely happy to be named a semifinalist 4 times in a row for James Beard Foundation Best Chef Southeast. But this past year, I won a JBF award for Best Television Personality and I have to say, winning made me happier than being nominated.”

For more information, please contact Ben Chapman, benjamin_chapman@ncsu.edu.