Dubbed Boston’s new Food Phantom, Emmanuel Mervil is a life-long Cambridge resident, former Algebra Project math literacy worker, and founder of Everybody Gotta Eat, an organization that provides a platform and outlet for emerging, independent chefs.

Founded as a small community give back, Everybody Gotta Eat is rooted in the idea that food brings people together. Today, Emmanuel runs a catering company, hosts large-scale cookouts and food festivals that bring Cambridge residents back to their neighborhoods. One day he’s curating menus for events, the next he’s guiding viewers to restaurants in and around the city-often in places where chefs do not get press attention. He attributes his desire to help people to his mother, whom he thinks of as a modern-day Harriet Tubman, helping people from her native country, Haiti.