Cooking & Food Shows


Renowned food writer and cooking teacher Sheri Castle celebrates local ingredients, tracing their journeys from source to kitchen. Sheri introduces us to local farmers, growers, fisherman and chefs and shares approachable home cooking recipes and tips.
Watch The Key Ingredient on the free PBS app with PBS NC Passport.

Visit The Key Ingredient's official website to find recipes from the show, meet featured guest chefs, and get quick kitchen tips directly from Sheri.
Join host Deborah Holt Noel as she shares the best things to see and do across the state each weekend. Whether you're a fan of bluegrass or jazz, an experienced hiker looking for a new trail to conquer or a family planning their next vacation, North Carolina Weekend brings our state's must-see places and events right into your home.
Watch NC Weekend, streaming now on the PBS app.
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Join host Deborah Holt Noel as she visits artists & makers across the state, explores the best outdoor activities, and checks out new restaurants and hot spots from the coast to the mountains and everywhere in between!
Watch NC Weekend, Thursdays at 9 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS app.
Follow eight talented home cooks from different regions of the country as they compete weekly with their most memorable recipes. In the final week, the top three home cooks vie for a chance to win The Great American Recipe. Hosted by Alejandra Ramos.
Watch The Great American Recipe, streaming now on the PBS app with PBS NC Passport.
Host and award-winning chef Vivian Howard digs deeper into the lesser-known roots of Southern food, Southern cooking, and Southern living. Vivian explores the connectivity of a single dish, and the ways people of different backgrounds interpret that dish while expressing the complex values, identities, and histories that make up the American South.
Watch Somewhere South, streaming now on the PBS app with PBS NC Passport.
Hosts Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison head into the test kitchen to bring viewers equipment reviews, taste tests, and recipes for the home cook. The skilled duo lead a team of test cooks that viewers have come to love and trust as they deconstruct recipes and reveal the test kitchen’s secrets to foolproof cooking at home.
Watch America's Test Kitchen, streaming now on the PBS app with PBS NC Passport.
An immersive culinary adventure that takes viewers deep into the heart of Native America, guided by award-winning celebrity Chef Pyet DeSpain (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation). Each episode drops audiences into a new and breathtaking landscape—deserts, forests, plains, and coastlines—where Chef Pyet joins Indigenous communities to gather, fish, hunt, and cook in the spirit of ancestral tradition.
Watch Spirit Plate, streaming now on the PBS app.
Join the restaurateur, author and Great British Baking Show judge as she welcomes guests into her Cotswold kitchen, sharing cherished recipes, tips and handy culinary hacks. Featuring Prue’s husband, John, and a cast of special friends, including Sandi Toksvig, Alison Hammond, and chef Tommy Banks, each episode is a unique culinary adventure celebrating food, friendship and fun.
Watch Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen, streaming now on the PBS app with PBS NC Passport.