Chef, Restaurateur, Television Personality and Author…. As a teenager, he worked at a Portuguese bakery where he mastered the art of bread and pastry baking. Upon high school graduation, Lagasse turned down a full scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music to pursue his dream of becoming a chef. After handing over the venture, Emeril Lagasse was mostly focusing on his restaurants, which eventually saw a drop in business, in the next decade. The Chef also told The Week in that the industry had become very challenging for an average restaurateur.
Emeril Lagasse also had to shut down a few branches of his restaurant which was a further setback for the Chef. Emeril Lagasse still owns a few restaurants in the country, which are expected to witness a spike in business with his return to television. Now follow your favourite television celebs and telly updates. Republic World is your one-stop destination for trending Bollywood news. After seven and a half years at Commander's Palace, Lagasse opened his first restaurant, Emeril's, in Immediately well received by patrons and critics, Emeril's was named Best New Restaurant of the Year by Esquire magazine.
In , Lagasse published the bestselling cookbook Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking , which introduced his creative approach to Creole cuisine. The following year, Time magazine classified Essence of Emeril as one of the 10 best shows on television.
Using catch phrases like "Bam! Featuring a live studio audience and a four-member band, the series catapulted Lagasse into a realm of celebrity rarely enjoyed by a chef. Capitalizing on the popularity of Emeril Live! In , an episode filmed in Las Vegas featured a young couple taking their wedding vows while Lagasse stood by as best man.
In May , the Food Network signed Lagasse to a five-year, multi-million dollar deal for 90 new episodes per year. She was an exceptional person. Just a few years later, Lagasse's mother, Hilda Lagasse , passed away.
She and her son were very close. She was one of his earliest teachers and cultivated his love for the culinary arts by teaching him family recipes. Part of the reason Lagasse has kept more to himself over the last few years could be due to his grief at losing two women who were such an important part of his life.
Emeril Lagasse's many restaurants have been successful, but for a while it looked like he might be in danger of losing them. Emeril Live was cancelled around the same time the US economy was rocked by a recession. The recession hit Lagasse's restaurants pretty hard, creating challenges to keeping his business afloat — and it took him a long time to fight way back.
Lagasse went so far as to blame Obama and the government for his business troubles, claiming that government interference was going to destroy middle range restaurants. Fortunately, things slowly turned around and by the chef had opened another restaurant. After Emeril Live was cancelled in , Lagasse looked for other ways to cash in on his fame. He still had his restaurants as a source of revenue, but decided to sell the rest of his brand to Martha Stewart 's company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, in Stewart bought the rights to pretty much everything except Lagasse's restaurants.
Her acquired properties included all of his television programming including syndication rights , his cookbooks, kitchen products, and food products. Given the success of his restaurants, Lagasse probably wasn't in desperate need of the money, but he did get a nice payout from selling his lucrative brand.
Fans were stunned when Emeril Live was cancelled in , and the show's end marked the decline of Lagasse's television career. Lagasse put a brave face on, but the cancellation came as a blow. Emeril Live wrapped in , and his other Food Network show, Essence of Emeril , was finished in Food Network wanted Lagasse to create reality shows, but he didn't like that idea.
Lagasse is primarily famous for being on Food Network , but that's not what he attributes his success to.
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