	Hill then began working on directing and producing her first serial television series, "A Chef's Life". Hill knew Chef Vivian Howard of the restaurant Chef & the Farmer in Kinston, North Carolina, from growing up together in Eastern North Carolina. Hill's sister and Howard were friends. Howard and Hill collaborated to create a documentary-style cooking show about Vivian's journey to make a modern, upscale restaurant successful using Southern ingredients and Southern food traditions. Each episode of the show focuses on a different ingredient. Said Hill, “Vivian and I grew up together in rural eastern North Carolina, and we created A Chef’s Life to focus on food traditions in our hometowns and her farm-to-table restaurant in Kinston, N.C. A lot of it is about her relationship to the local purveyors of the ingredients she uses, so again, the viewer glimpses a world that not many people are privy to, or even think about.” "A Chef's Life" has aired nationally on PBS from 2013-2016. Season 4 began airing in September 2016.