This is a character-driven documentary and cooking hybrid series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard. After making a name for herself in the Manhattan restaurant world, Vivian received an offer from her parents. They would help her build a restaurant — but she has to open it back home in Eastern North Carolina, a place to which she swore she would never return. In the first season, Vivian and Ben are juggling the restaurant, raising twins and anxiously building their own home. The series celebrates modern Southern cuisine, seasonality, farmers, and food artisans — all through the lens of a working restaurant. In this episode Vivian revisits the Southern tradition of ‘putting up’ corn and shares her method for making smoked corn relish. As the episode concludes, a devastating setback threatens their new life.