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Boston Globe
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Phil Rosenthal explores Boston eats in latest ‘Somebody Feed Phil' season
Advertisement While filming in the Hub, he visited some of the city's most innovative chefs and a few of its tourist traps, including an obligatory saunter through Quincy Market. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Not bashful about the fact that his show 'I'm decidedly not cool, and certainly not an expert,' he says. 'I'm decidedly, even proudly, a tourist. But I am a curious tourist, which is how I think tourists should be.' Stops along his Boston itinerary include Advertisement Phil Rosenthal, right, prepares to eat oysters at Neptune Oyster in an episode of "Somebody Feed Phil." Netflix 'I'm anxious that we got it right,' says Rosenthal, who just announced a return visit to Boston for a live appearance at the Wilbur (September 10). His neuroses are a big part of the show's charm. Near the end of the episode, as he prepares to lean into a lamb shank at La Royal, he laments that he's already stuffed. 'The great ones play in pain,' he says. Rosenthal, who is 65, has a wide-eyed sense of enthusiasm for everything and everyone he encounters. It's inherent to his personality, he says, but it's also something he has cultivated in his professional life. Before he created 'We do not provide breakfast for you,' the note concluded. Shocked by the pettiness of the rebuke, Rosenthal decided that if he was ever lucky enough to become a showrunner, 'we're gonna have milk on our cereal.' 'My attitude is if you put nice out there, you get nice back,' he says. 'Some small act of kindness could change someone's life.' For the Boston episode, he and his crew made a detour to Rhode Island, where they visited Sherry Pocknett, the first Indigenous woman to be honored with a James Beard Award. Rosenthal was clearly smitten with her and the food her daughter Jade served up at their restaurant, Sly Fox Den Too. The corn chowder topped with smoked mussels is 'kinda genius,' he says. Advertisement After Pocknett told him she rarely got out of the kitchen, he insisted she come join his group at Since the taping, Pocknett's restaurant Over the show's seven-year run, dozens of restaurants have experienced a surge in their business after being featured on 'Somebody Feed Phil.' After he dined at a picturesque seafood cafe overlooking the harbor in Lisbon, he brought his wife back for a vacation. He called the restaurant, and the owner gushed about the debt he owed Rosenthal for featuring his business. Rosenthal mentioned that he happened to be back in town and would love to stop by, and the guy replied, 'I'm sorry, we're full.' 'I couldn't get in,' Rosenthal says with a laugh. 'I screwed myself.' The episode wraps up with a Zoom visit from his friend Jane Fonda. 'She's a gift to the world, I think,' he says. 'Talk about walking the walk.' She calls him the 'Jewish Tinkerbell,' he explains with another laugh. Fonda is one of many people who have told him that they love the show for its lightheartedness and cultural engagement. 'She says she watches it every night,' he says. 'It soothes her, and it makes her feel good about the world.' Advertisement There's 'a dearth' of shows with those qualities right now, Rosenthal says. 'My show was never meant to be a political statement, but because the world is the way it is today, to be embracing of other cultures is somehow political. Which is really stupid. To me, it's only human.' During the time he spent with Pocknett, she told him about the Wampanoag tribe's first encounter with the pilgrims at Plymouth. The new arrivals were struggling with the climate and the environment, she says. What did the Native Americans do? Rosenthal asks. Her answer, he says, makes the scene 'one of my favorites I've ever done.' 'We were human,' Pocknett says matter-of-factly. 'We helped them.' James Sullivan can be reached at
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What Mashpee chef Sherry Pocknett said after meeting Gordon Ramsey on 'Hell's Kitchen'
James Beard Award-winning chef Sherry Pocknett, of Mashpee, is going to be on television again. Her upcoming TV appearance, on Netflix's "Somebody Feed Phil," won't be the first time the Wampanoag chef is spotted on the small screen. Pocknett has been on TV half a dozen times over the years, and was on at least two major food shows previously. Pockett was a semifinal judge on Season 23 of Gordon Ramsey's "Hell's Kitchen," filmed shortly after she won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Northeast in June 2023. In 2021, celebrity chef Padma Lakshmi cooked with Pocknett on the Thanksgiving episode of her "Taste the Nation." A film she was in, "Taste of the Indigenous," won Best Native/Indigenous Short in the 2022 Albuquerque Film & Music Experience. The Wampanoag chef was named Best Chef in the Northeast in 2023 partly for her efforts to preserve Indigenous foods, including Indian fry bread and venison sausage. She was the first Indigenous woman to win a James Beard Award. She is working toward opening the 200-seat restaurant she owns on Poquetanuck Bay in Preston, Connecticut after closing her eatery, Sly Fox Den Too, in Charlestown, Rhode Island. James Beard Award-winning chef is back: Wampanoag chef Sherry Pocknett moves back to Mashpee, hopes to open new restaurant Here's where you can find her on TV: Pocknett was on two episodes of the most recent season - 23 - of "Hell's Kitchen", which aired in 2024. She emphatically called herself a "Gordon Ramsey fan" in one of the episodes. 'He's fun, very fun. He's not that way at all,' Pocknett said in an interview with a Times reporter, of Ramsey's reputation for having a fiery temper. She judged the semifinals, including food from a contestant who made it to the season finale, Hannah Flora, who worked on Martha's Vineyard. Earlier in the season, she cooked lunch — pulled turkey on top of butternut squash bread — as part of a prize for episode 11's winning team. "Getting to shake the hand of a James Beard Award-winning chef is just a dream come true," contestant Egypt Davis said in the episode. "Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi" went to Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard for a Thanksgiving episode in 2021, "Truth and the Turkey Tale." After visiting Wampanoag Tribe members there, celebrity chef Lakshmi cooked Pocknett's stuffed sea bass with her at Pocknett's Charlestown, Rhode Island restaurant, Sly Fox Den, Too. Pocknett and Lakshmi shared childhood stories of eating foods that were culturally different from their classmates' foods. "I used to be embarrassed to have racoon and stuff like that for dinner," Pocknett said. "Going to school: 'What did you have last night?" 'I had raccoon.'" Pocknett pulled a face and Lakshmi collapsed onto the table between them laughing. "I'm laughing because I had a similar experience, but mine was dal and rice, which, you know, Indian food is not very attractive and smelly, too, so I can imagine .... " Pocknett filmed an episode of 'Somebody Feed Phil,' slated to air in May, she said. Also in May, she'll be in a feature with Yankee Magazine TV. 'That's going to be a fun one. My brother is in it and the tribal daycare and language school,' she said. Alison Bosma added to this report. Gwenn Friss is the editor of CapeWeek and covers entertainment, restaurants and the arts. Contact her at gfriss@ Join the Cape Cod Times free Facebook group, Good Stuff at Cape Cod Restaurants, to share tips and participate in food polls. Thanks to our subscribers, who help make this coverage possible. If you are not a subscriber, please consider supporting quality local journalism with a Cape Cod Times subscription. Here are our subscription plans. This article originally appeared on Cape Cod Times: Cape Cod chef was semifinal judge on 'Hell's Kitchen,' other food TV
