Welcome to www.emerillagasse.net

Emeril Lagasse is a famous chef that has appeared on several cooking shows and chef challenge show such as the ones that Gordon Ramsey does. He is a master in the kitchen, with foods of all kinds and just like any professional chef he is also a master with the knives. At fifty years old he is one of the world’s masters with not only his own designs and masterpieces but also a master at cooking the classics. He has been a man that has been able to pass on a lot of excellent tips for his viewers over the years he has been a champion chef and hopefully he will be around for a lot longer so that he can show us what else he can do in the kitchen.

You can download the TV series online to see his masterful cooking while he teaches the audience what he is doing and why. By telling us why then he is passing down generations of knowledge as to why people cook certain ways and prepare foods in other ways. The shows are about twenty minutes long and you can cook alongside him so that you keep up with his work, as long as at the end of the session you can pull something out of the oven and say ‘this is the one I prepared earlier.’

Emeril Lagasse was born of a French-Canadian father and a Portuguese mother in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1959. He developed an interest for cooking while working at a local bakery at his teenage years. He subsequently enrolled for cooking classes at the Diman Vocational High School. Emeril had a few more talents including being a well accomplished percussionist; he played at dances and local religious occasions. Upon graduation, Lagesse had an offer for a scholarship at the New England Conservatory of Music, this he declined in the interests of following his passion as a professional chef. He therefore chose to proceed to the Johnson and Wales University at providence and took up a job at the local restaurant in order to cover his tuition. He and Elizabeth Kief met at the college and were married in the October of 1978. His culinary skills were polished in France, in the cities of Lyon and Paris. He returned to the US to work in fine restaurants across the Northeast.

As the Commander’s Palace executive chef, Lagasse won a lot of support and was loved by gourmet enthusiasts. In 1990, right after he’d left the Commander’s Palace, he opened up Emeril’s (his own restaurant), this was in New Orleans in the state of Louisiana. The eatery won “Restaurant of the Year” in the magazine, Esquire. Lagasse humors his clientele by the enthusiasm with which he makes Creole dishes as well as his Cajun cooking styles. Presently, Lagasse has in his property, ten restaurants across America. The establishment’s restaurant at Atlanta was closed in 2008.

His appearance on Great Chefs was the first attempt at broadcasting any of his endeavors in the media. He appeared for quite a few episodes and proceeded to host his own show after appearances in another cook program, FoodTV.