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Emeril Lagasse may make a lot of noise, but his cast-iron stove-top smoker, made by All-Clad, promises to become a quiet favorite for summer smoking and barbecuing and long into winter. Nothing holds heat like cast iron, which has always been reason enough to love it. But the Emerilware smoker’s lid can be flipped for use as a grill pan; the smoker can also serve as a roaster and a broiler pan. It’s a hefty 10 by 22 inches, comes with four flavors of Cameron’s wood chips and costs about $100. Available at some Sur La Table, Linens ‘n Things and Bed, Bath and Beyond stores and at www.bedbathandbeyond.com.

Capital infusions : Last week, the Emeril Lagasse Foundation announced it was awarding $125,000 in “community impact” grants to help finance culinary education and summer camp programs.

Cafe Reconcile was among the grant recipients. The Central City cafe, which helps at-risk youth acquire skills in the restaurant business, received $25,000.

Also, the Willie Mae’s rebuilding project received $30,000 from the James Beard Foundation.

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Times-Picayune

Quick Bites
Friday, June 23, 2006
Brett Anderson
Restaurant writer

Brett Anderson writes about restaurants. He can be reached at banderson@timespicayune.com or at (504) 826-3353.

ORLANDO, FL — Emeril’s Tchoup Chop (pronounced chop-chop), opened in January 2003 at Universal Orlando’s Royal Pacific Resort. The restaurant features Asian and Polynesian cuisine complemented by Chef Emeril Lagasse’s signature bold flavors. Emeril’s Tchoup Chop takes its name from Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans, where Emeril’s original restaurant is located, and the word, “chop,” a bold culinary term. Tchoup Chop is Lagasse’s second restaurant in Orlando. Emeril’s Orlando, opened at Universal Orlando’s CityWalk in February 1999.
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Available in Red or Black, the 10-Piece Set Will Retail for $199CHICAGO, March 12, 2006 – As show-stopping as America’s Favorite Chef himself, the new Enamel Set from Emeril Lagasse, through his partnership with All-Clad, combines heavy-gauge aluminum with an enamel exterior for sizzling style in the kitchen. Available June 1st for $199, the Enamel 10-Piece Set will be offered in red and black. Read more »

For my first dinner at Nola since it reopened six weeks ago, I needed my wife and teenage daughter’s fine eyes for design and service. I don’t think I’m cool enough for Emeril’s experimental bistro.
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‘From Emeril’s Kitchen’ Live TV Special to Air July 16 on Shop at Home
Wednesday July 13, 2005

Food Network personality Emeril Lagasse will demo Emeril-brand products during live appearances at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 16, 2005

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 13, 2005– Emeril Lagasse is known for being a Food Network personality, a celebrity chef, and a restauranteur. And on Saturday, July 16, Emeril Lagasse will add Shop at Home host to his growing list of credentials.

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2006 South Beach Wine & Food Festival Presented by Food & Wine Magazine Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary Friday, February 24 - Sunday, February 26, 2006
Thursday June 9, 11:43 am ET

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., June 9 /PRNewswire/ — Building upon four phenomenally successful years, the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, hosted by Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida and Florida International University, plans to celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2006 with some of the world’s greatest culinary superstars and wine and spirits personalities, all of whom will converge in South Beach for three glorious days of non-stop food and wine indulgence, Friday, February 24 - Sunday, February 26.

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Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Bam! Emeril helps spice up PS cafeteria

Spice king Emeril Lagasse kicked it up a notch at a Harlem school cafeteria yesterday as giddy students savored their good fortune.
“I want to live here,” second-grader Keletigui James Kaba said as she gazed across the Children’s Storefront School’s renovated kitchen on E. 129th St. “This place is heaven.”

Lagasse redesigned the independent school’s bland-basement cafeteria as part of the Food Network’s “All-Star Kitchen Makeover”

The celebrity chef replaced the cafeteria’s drab white walls with murals of dancing bananas, bike-riding onions and soccer-ball playing apples - Bam!

The kitchen’s pillars also were covered in baby blue mosaic tiles, and waterproof floors were installed.

New stainless steel refrigerators brimming with leafy greens were a hit with the cajun chef. But the kids’ enjoyed the new ice cream machine much more.

“This has inspired children to know dreams are possible,” Lagasse said. “This kitchen will continue to keep touching people.”

School chef Anthony Jenkins promised to whip up fried chicken and fries for students today using his new deep fryer. “I can’t wait to get started,” he said.

Kathleen Lucadamo

by Cynthia Ward Vesey, Senior Editor

Reprinted with the permission of Home World Business, ICD Publications

CHICAGO March 20 2005 - The Wedgwood Housewares Group, a new division of Wedgwood, will launch the Emeril Professional collection of dinnerware, food prep and oven-to-table pieces here at the International Home & Housewares Show.

The new Emeril tableware joins a growing stable of housewares licensed by popular restauranteur, TV personality and author Chef Emeril Lagasse. The Emerilware line includes cookware and bakeware by All-Clad and cutlery by Wusthof.
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New York Daily News
March 25, 2005

A newly renovated school cafeteria - Bam!
Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse stopped in at a Harlem school yesterday to tell pizza-eating students he is going to soup up their cafeteria as part of a cable television contest.

“Not only did you win, you won me, too,” Lagasse told kids at the Children’s Storefront School on E.129th St.

“We aren’t just going to kick it up, we are going to kick it up a big notch,” Lagasse vowed.

The independent, tuition-free school entered the Food Network’s “All-Star Kitchen Makeover” contest, in which celebrity chefs, including Bobby Flay and Lagasse, overhaul old kitchens. The Children’s Storefront is the first school to win.

“This is the greatest moment of my life,” said fourth-grader Olivia Thompson, a star-struck 9-year-old.

Over the next month, Lagasse and his helpers will install a new oven and refrigerator and bring in fans and warming ovens, school officials said. The renovated kitchen should be completed by April 22.

“Our kitchen is pretty old and run-down,” said Kathy Egmont, head of Children’s Storefront, where 170 students are enrolled in prekindergarten through eighth grade. “We will be able to cook more food more quickly and have a better variety of lunches,” she said.

The school is housed in what used to be a single-family home and has been dishing out lunch from a basement cafeteria for 39 years.

Students seemed to care little yesterday about the type of food the new cafeteria would serve. Many just wanted to know what color the walls would be painted.

“I think they should paint it red - Bam! - and blue,” Olivia said.

Kathleen Lucadamo