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Naked Lunch

Wolfgang Puck

Naked Lunch

Straw Hut Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9806 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Arguably the world's most famous chef, Wolfgang Puck joins his longtime friend Phil and David for a very special "Naked Lunch" live taping held at the 2022 Environmental Media Association Impact Summit. Puck discusses  overcoming his abusive stepfather, his singular success culinary story and his many interactions with legendary stars in Hollywood and around the world. Phil and David use the excellent Disney Plus documentary "Wolfgang" as a jumping off point for a revealing conversation about leading a sustainable life, being of service to your community and always staying hungry professionally. All this as well as audience questions and a delicious appearance by Wolfgang's legendary smoked salmon pizza! To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com.

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0:00.0

David, do you like food? Oh, yeah. I think you know. I think you could tell.

0:04.4

This is a good one because I think we have arguably one of the best chefs in the world,

0:11.1

and that's not an exaggeration. This guy, I want everybody to watch if they haven't yet on Disney Plus,

0:16.8

the documentary Wolfgang. It's really fantastic. His life is so interesting, so fascinating,

0:23.9

and he's overcome a lot of adversity to get to where he is. Wolfgang Puck has been a friend

0:29.6

of mine for many years. I'm going to say 30 years, you know, like when I first came to L.A.

0:36.2

Started Gona, Spago, and I sought him out.

0:40.1

This was before even any success I had in TV, I was just like a fan.

0:46.3

And he saw me as like a regular, and we just started talking.

0:49.6

And then, you know, lucky enough to have success with Raymond, then we'd have all our parties there.

0:54.6

We had all our birthdays there. We had the kids' birthdays there. The Emmy parties, of course,

0:59.2

were always there. And of course, he does the Oscars. I think he gets underestimated because he's so

1:05.7

famous, because he, that people think, oh, he's a frozen pizza guy or something.

1:11.6

They forget what a phenomenal chef he is.

1:14.7

So I'm thrilled to explore a little of his world today.

1:18.8

And we're doing it with an organization.

1:20.7

I'm thrilled to stand with often.

1:22.6

They're the Environmental Media Association.

1:25.2

We filmed this in front of an audience at the Environmental Media Summit.

1:29.2

It's a group that I got in sync with when they gave an award to Justin Timberlake,

1:35.8

and I worked with him on the speech.

1:37.9

And I wasn't even at the event, but the head of the organization, Debbie Levin, whose cell phone, I believe, goes off sometime in this episode.

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