A regional food feature tied to public television is spotlighting Northern Spy in Canton for chef Marc Sheehan's work reviving centuries-old Indigenous corn dishes.

Newengland.com's "Weekends in the Kitchen" feature, published Aug. 24, described senior food editor Amy Traverso's visit to the restaurant at 4 Rolling Mill Way. There, Sheehan served trout filets over a stew of corn, beans and hominy atop creamy samp, a ground-corn porridge that Indigenous New England cooks developed and European colonists later adopted as a staple. The dish draws on Wampanoag msíckquatash, the tradition behind what most Americans know as succotash.

The feature is connected to Season 10 of "Weekends with Yankee," a GBH co-production.

Sheehan, executive chef and co-owner of Northern Spy, studied early American history at College of Holy Cross. He trained under Dan Barber at Blue Hill at Stone Barns starting in 2008 and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America.

He opened Loyal Nine in East Cambridge in 2015, earning a James Beard semifinalist nod for Rising Star Chef in 2016. He and co-owner Daniel Myers launched Northern Spy in Canton in December 2020. Loyal Nine closed the following year.

The restaurant sits inside the brick Rolling Copper Mill that Paul Revere founded in 1801.

"The food history of New England was always a creative jumping-off point for me in terms of choices I made on the menu, ingredients, recipes," Sheehan told the Boston Globe in a July 1 interview. "The historical importance of the site is what first attracted us to it."

The restaurant cooks over a wood-fired hearth. In a Phantom Gourmet profile, Sheehan said the decision honored the workers who once tended forges in the same building.

Northern Spy's broader menu features grass-fed Massachusetts beef, local seafood and dishes like brown bread and sticky toffee pudding. Boston Magazine named it one of the top 50 restaurants in and around Boston in 2021 and Best Brunch South of Boston in 2021 and 2022.

As of July, Sheehan was also hosting a "Culinary Chronicles of New England" dinner series at the restaurant in honor of America's 250th anniversary, according to the Boston Globe. The ticketed dinners feature period-appropriate dishes including eel casserole and an 18th-century poppyseed cake.

Northern Spy is open Tuesday through Wednesday from 4 to 9 p.m., Thursday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday through Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 4 to 9 p.m. Reservations: (781) 989-1850.