6.7/1027 votes#1 - Southerners
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/2013
A spotlight on the regional variations of southern cuisine. Chef Steven Satterfield makes okra and grits. Chef John Currence makes tamales. Chef Ed Lee creates a dish using bourbon, sorghum and country ham. Pastry chef Lisa Donavan makes a buttermilk pie. New host Sean Brock is joined by the Lee Brothers to make deviled crab
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7.1/1023 votes#2 - Seeds
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/2013
It all began when Sean Brock went looking for Jimmy red corn. That simple journey turned into a lifetime of searching, archiving and reviving lost crops of the South. His partners in crime are legendary owner and operator of Anson Mills, Glen Roberts, and University of South Carolina professor David Shields — a trifecta of seed nerds hell-bent on preserving Southern food heritage.
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7.1/1020 votes#3 - Rice
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/2013
The resurrection of Carolina gold rice, which disappeared following the Civil War era, is examined. Included: making pilaf and Hoppin' John fritters. Also: Louisiana chef Donald Link makes jambalaya; and Senegalese chef Fati Ly makes pilau.
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6.4/1018 votes#4 - Louisiana
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/2013
A look at Louisiana cuisine features a visit to Middendorf's Restaurant in Akers, La., with food writer John T. Edge; and a frogging excursion with chef Donald Link.
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7.1/1020 votes#5 - Preserve
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/2013
Preservation techniques that play an important role in Southern culture are discussed, including drying, salt-curing, canning and fermentation.
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6.6/1018 votes#6 - Roots
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/2013
Host Sean Brock prepares a typical Appalachian dinner; cooks chicken dumplings with his mother; visits with chef Joseph Lenn at Blackberry Farms in Tennessee; and learns how to make fried okra and country ham.
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7.4/1025 votes#7 - Low Country BBQ
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/2013
Host Sean Brock prepares an outdoor feast on a friend's farm, where he's joined by barbecue pitmaster Rodney Scott, who roasts a whole pig; and Steven Satterfield, who makes Savannah red rice. Brock also prepares frogmore stew
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6.9/1018 votes#8 - Senegal
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/2013
The influence of West Africa on Southern cuisine is explored during a visit to Senegal. Historian and chef Fati Ly leads a tour of the markets in Dakar and M'Bour; and cooks theibou yapp, a traditional Sengalese dish.
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6.5/1017 votes#9 - London
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/2013
Chef April Bloomfield visits London, where she began her cooking career. Cooking walnut tagliatelle with chef Ruth Rogers. Making rabbit pie with chef Fergus Henderson, and enjoying a pint and scotch eggs with chef Rowley Leigh.
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6.5/1014 votes#10 - Sea/Salt
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/2013
Focus on April’s love of the sea, which is deep and fully realized.
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7.2/1015 votes#11 - Curry
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/2013
Explore the origins of curry and England’s versions of this historic cuisine.
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6.6/1014 votes#12 - Italian
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/2013
Explore April Bloomfield’s deep love for Italian cuisine and its influence on her cooking.
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6.9/1018 votes#13 - British Classics
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/2013
Review some of the signature dishes of UK cuisine: bangers and mash, fish-n-chips, and pies.
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6.7/1015 votes#14 - Farmer
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/5/2013
April travels four hours outside London to Cornwall to visit and cook with farmer and chef Tom Adams on his farm. Tom raises the cute, furry and delicious mangalitsa pigs. April and Tom butcher and cook the entire pig piece by piece: loin, shoulder, belly and head.
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6.7/1015 votes#15 - Leftovers
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/12/2013
This episode aims to prove that nasty bits have been given a bad rap and deserve to be on the kitchen table along with meatloaf and mashed potatoes. In the kitchen, April cooks faggots, bubble and squeak and pig parts; Fergus Henderson works his offal magic on kidneys.
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6.4/1012 votes#16 - Restauranteur
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/19/2013
Chef Bloomfield wrestles with the questions every aspiring new or expanding veteran chef has to confront. April and her business partner, Ken Friedman, explore the challenges of opening their first out-of-state venture in San Francisco: Tosca. April is inspired by a local morning bun, and she’s busy in the kitchen testing and tasting dishes for her new menu.
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The Best Episodes of The Mind of a Chef Season 2
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Southerners" is the best rated episode of "The Mind of a Chef" season 2. It scored 6.7/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/5/2013. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Seeds".