Emeril!: Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef

By Marcia Layton Turner

Book Overview

A revealing look at the real "Emeril live"

Emeril Lagasse is a phenomenon-a television chef and restaurateur who has parlayed his outsized personality and gastronomic acumen into a multi-million-dollar culinary empire. Along the way, he's added new catchphrases to the American idiom-"bam," "kick it up a notch," and "pork fat rules"-and won the hearts (and stomachs) of millions of loyal fans.

Now, for the first time, you get to enter into Emeril's incredible world. Filled with candid stories and vivid details, EMERIL! Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef reveals how this culinary connoisseur made it to the top of his profession, while staying true to his main mission-showing ordinary people how to have fun with food.

Weaving together Emeril's personal and professional journeys to international stardom, EMERIL! Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef offers an entertaining look at how one of the world's most talented chefs became a household name.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471656267
• ISBN13: 9780471656265
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

All Emeril all the time

There is not much in the way of printed biography of Emeril Lagasse; this is not a fabulous book-but it is about a fabulous chef, personality, and a star. It is certainly worth the read for any Emeril fan. Let the critics whine... The fact is that this guy really cooks and he is great at it; just try a few of his recipes. He is also a great personality and a real TV star. So what that he puts a little jazz in his TV shows; he still cooks and teaches. I have learned a great deal about cooking from his shows. I find myself always doing searches for his recipes. He mastered New Orleans cuisine and re-invented it; and having lived there three times during my career- it is no easy task. They have some of the best restaurants in the world and if you're not good you don't survive long there. This book gives a very good look at his personal life; he certainly is a self made man. He has worked extremely hard to get where he is today. That becomes very clear when you read this biography. He has paid the price for working hard and long hours; but he is honest about his mistakes. You can tell he is a good person and a person that never forgets his humble up bringing in a working class town.