Mashama Bailey returns to Georgia, her place of birth, to open a new restaurant drawing on the knowledge and culinary history of the Southern African American chefs who came before her.

Aspiring veterinarian Dario Ceccini returns to save his family's butchery business and becomes the world's most famous butcher.

Asma Khan abandons a career in British constitutional law to return to India to extract the secret recipes of her family's Royal Muglai roots.

Sean Brock, who has devoted his career to preserving southern food crops and culinary traditions, is finally forced to reckon with personal demons that threaten his life