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Award-winning chef Vivian Howard is expanding her smart refrigerator business to the Triangle. The newest Viv's Fridge location is outside of Wine Authorities at 211 E. Franklin St. in Raleigh.

BOX OFFICE. A CALL. >> THE BRIDGE CAME TO REALLY, YOU KNOW, I HAD THE IDEA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC HAS SPENT A FAIR AMOUNT. TOM, ON BALD HEAD ISLAND WITH MY CHILDREN AND MY EXTENDED FAMILY. AND WHILE THAT WAS AMAZING. I DID A LOT OF COOKING AND CLEANING AND COOKING AND CLEANING AND COOKING AND CLEANING. SO I THOUGHT, WOW, WHAT IF THERE WERE LIKE A FRIDGE THAT I CAN JUST GO AND ANY TIME OF DAY OR NIGHT YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN IT UP AND GET SOMETHING GREAT THAT I COULD THEN JUST HEAT UP AND NOT FOR ONE PERSON, BUT FOR MULTIPLE PEOPLE. >> I THOUGHT IT SOUNDED REALLY COOL. THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT ABOUT WAS HOW THAT'S GREAT. I CAN'T WAIT TO YOU. YOU KNOW, BE ABLE TO HAVE EASY ACCESS TO HER FOOD. I WASN'T THINKING OF IT FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES IMMEDIATELY. HAVING IT IN FRONT OF WINE SHOPS GIVES YOU GREAT ACCESS TO BE ABLE TO SAY I'M GETTING READY TO TAKE A MEAL HOME TO THE FAMILY. IF I'M NOT NECESSARILY AS WINDS SAVVY AS LIKE A RESTAURANT IS ORA A SOMMELIER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, HOW MY GOING TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, KNOW WHAT WINE GOES WITH THIS >> ONE OF THE DISHES SHE'S DONE REALLY WELL THAT WE ENJOYED THIS DISH WITH CARAMELIZED ONIONS TO SHORT RIBS. >> IT'S VERY RICH, BOLD, FLAVORFUL. KIND OF THING. SO. >> I PICKED OUT THIS REALLY RIOJA FROM THIS SMALL PRODUCER THAT WE DISCOVERED A FEW YEARS AGO. IT'S A VERY RICH, BOLD FLAVORED WINE MADE WITH, YOU KNOW, TOP QUALITY OAK BARRELS. IT'S VERY INTENSE AND AND IT PLAYS REALLY NICELY WITH THOSE VERY INTENSE FLAVORS OF SHORT RIBS. THE NEXT ONE IS ONE THAT GOES WITH CHICKEN AND WINTER VEGETABLE POT PIE. THIS IS A WIND FROM SOUTHWEST FRANCE. IT HAS SOME EARTHINESS TO IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU'RE BEING SERVED ROOT VEGETABLES, THINGS LIKE RUDABEH GOES AND TURNIPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THOSE ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME 30 FLAVORS. AND SO HAVING A WINE HAS A LITTLE BIT OF 13 US WHAT KIND OF CANCEL OUT THOSE FLAVORS TOGETHER AND ALLY TO TAKE THE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE PRESENT. SO A LITTLE BIT OF THE FRUIT FLAVOR COMES FORWARD ON THIS. WHEN YOU BLOCK OUT SOME OF THE EARTHINESS, SOME OF THE HERBS THAT SHE'S USING IN THAT DISH WILL ACTUALLY COME FORWARD A LITTLE BIT MORE. IF YOU BLOCK OUT THE EARTHINESS THAT COMES FROM THE ROOT VEGETABLES. THIS IS A LINE OUTSIDE OF ROME IN AN AREA CALLED LOT CO. IT'S A RED BLEND. IT IS THE ONE THAT WE CHOSE TO GO WITH THE TOMATO SOUP THE BEER BREAD. CHEESE STICKS. YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT THE REAL JUICY NEWS. THE MOUTH WATERING A CITY OF TOMATOES. SO THIS IS A NOT REAL HEAVY ITALIAN RED IS MORE MEDIUM BODIED, BUT IT HAS REALLY JUICY ACIDITY. REALLY NICE FRUIT. JUST REALLY DOES THIS PLAY. BUT THAT PAY PLAY NICELY WITH THE TOMATOES THAT ARE. AND THAT'S IT. >> FINISH WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL WIND FROM PORTUGAL. THIS IS TO GO WITH THE WINTER CITRUS AND SHAVED FENNEL SALAD INSTEAD OF USING OF VINEGAR AND FOR INNOVATIVE GRANT SHE'S USING CITRUS JUICE. SO THAT'S WHY IT'S A SITTER NEXT. BUT CITRIC ACID AND MALIK ACID THAT'S PRESENT IN WIND ACTUALLY PLAYED REALLY NICELY. AND SO THESE 2, BUT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, KIND OF GIVE YOU A NICE, REFRESHING, LIGHTER KIND OF EXPERIENCE. REALLY GOOD STUFF. >> YOU KNOW, WE HAVE DINING ROOMS THAT YOU CAN ONLY, DONNA, WE HAVE KITCHENS THAT YOU CAN ONLY COOK IN AND WE'RE ONLY USING THEM FOR A SMALL PERIOD OF THE DAY. BUT WE'RE COOKING ALL DAY LONG AND WERE WORKING ALL DAY LONG. BUT WE'RE ONLY BRINGING IN REVENUE. FOR ABOUT 4, 5, HOURS A NIGHT. YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THE BRIDGE STRUCTURE WORKS NECESSARILY WITHOUT THE RESTAURANT. I THINK NOW THAT WE'RE SEEING THIS, YOU KNOW. FORWARD MOVEMENT AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST WE'RE COOKING COOKING, COOKING COOKING AND YOU CAN KEEP UP. MY TEAM. IT FEELS MORE LIKE THE OLD DAYS INN. THEY REALIZE THAT THERE THEY'RE A PART OF SOMETHING NEWS AND IT MATTERS. I HOPE EVERYBODY WILL COME CHECK OUT THIS FRIDGE. WE HAVE THEM ALL OVER THE TRIANGLE, ANDY SERWER, CAROLINA. AND IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE AND SEE OUR EVER-CHANGING MENU GOOD TO HAVE THAT STRAY SHOT COM OR TO OUR INSTAGRAM. NOT THIS

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Award-winning chef Vivian Howard is expanding her smart refrigerator business to the Triangle. 

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Award-winning TV host and chef Vivian Howard has closed her Kinston oyster bar, Boiler Room, permanently, representatives confirmed Friday. 



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Celebrity chef, author and restaurateur Vivian Howard, returns to PBS in a new six-part series, "Somewhere South." The show explores the dishes that are uniting cultures and creating new traditions across the American South. (Courtesy of Markay Media) 

I've always looked at food to help explain the world around me So I started to seek out the dishes that connect us all What are we making today So have you ever had a Sri Lankan meatball What do you think What I found in the South is that food tells us where we came from where we landed and what we did when we got there It's Southern Chinese America a group toe love the South and grew to claim it Wherever I've been before this is home

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Chef Vivian Howard used to work at WRAL. The chef and TV host interned for the 5 on Your Side department during her time at North Carolina State University.



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Kinston chef and PBS star Vivian Howard has started a T-shirt fundraiser to help restaurants on Ocracoke Island recover from Hurricane Dorian.

Vivian Howard raises $41,000 for Ocracoke restaurants after Hurricane Dorian

Kinston chef and PBS star Vivian Howard is raising money to help an Ocracoke restaurant recover from Hurricane Dorian.

Kinston's Vivian Howard raising money for Ocracoke restaurant hit by Hurricane Dorian

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From Deep Run, North Carolina, Vivian Howard is a celebrity chef best known for Kinston's Chef & the Farmer restaurant and as the former television host of the award-winning "A Chef's Life." (Additional photo credits: Josh Woll, Blaire Johnson and Baxter Miller)

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Vivian Howard, a celebrity chef from Deep Run, N.C., will return to PBS in her new series that will "explore dishes that are uniting cultures and creating new traditions across the American South," according to a press release. 



Vivian Howard returns to PBS in new series 'South by Somewhere'

Award-winning chef Vivian Howard announced this week that her PBS series "A Chef's Life" will come to close after five seasons. 