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Vivian's crash course in mass producing hand pies inspires her to revisit the applejacks of her youth. Her journey includes a trip to West Virginia for a taste of their signature pepperoni rolls and a look at the world's most popular hand pie - the empanada.

Episode 1, American as Hand Pie

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Host and award-winning chef Vivian Howard takes viewers on a culinary tour of the American South through cross-cultural dishes that appear on every neighbour's table.

Somewhere South with Vivian Howard

Series 1

Award-winning chef Vivian Howard takes viewers on a culinary tour of the American South.

At a dinner honouring pioneering chef Edna Lewis, Vivian gives porridge the royal treatment and learns about African American contributions to Southern cuisine. While in the port city, Vivian learns how rice holds the key to slavery's sordid history.

Episode 2, Porridge for the Soul

A charity dinner and a trip to the Mississippi Delta and farther south reminds Vivian that not all dumplings are the same. But whether filled with minced meat, chopped veggies, or nothing at all, dumplings stretch our ingredients and our imagination.

Episode 3, Dumpling Dilemma

Vivian is asked to lecture on chow chow, a quintessentially Southern relish, at Asheville's first ever Chow Chow Festival. From there, her preservation education dives into Indian and Sri Lankan pickles, Puerto Rican escabeche and Korean kimchi.

Episode 4, What a Pickle

At the Lumbee tribe's annual homecoming, Vivian samples their famous collard sandwich and learns the roots of Southern hospitality. On a trip to Clarkston, Ga., Vivian meets a group of refugee farmers who grow greens that remind them of home.

Episode 5, It's a Greens Thing

Every Southerner has a particular way they cook and eat barbecue. While Vivian knows North Carolina's tradition of whole hog barbecue, she travels to Florida for smoked mullet and Texas for barbecue with Japanese and Mexican twists.