NEW YORK, For Immediate Release – It will be rocket science for Chef Emeril Lagasse when his recipes are served to the astronauts on the International Space Station on August 10, 2006. Lagasse is the first celebrity chef to have meals developed for NASA astronauts and the first person to have those recipes served in space. On August 10, from approximately 1:30pm to 1:50pm ET/PT, Emeril will speak live via satellite with the astronauts while they feast on the fruit of his culinary labors.
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NEW ORLEANS, LA (August 20, 2006) – Emeril Lagasse Foundation, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and Celebrate Jazz LLC announce an educational cooking concert entitled “Cookin’ with Music” featuring Chef Emeril Lagasse and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, along with the Wynton Marsalis Jazz Septet, to be held Monday, August 28, 2006 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The pair of nationally renowned personalities with roots in New Orleans will educate and entertain on the cultural similarities and creativity involved in both the culinary and musical artforms. The program is free of charge for 4,000 school children in the New Orleans area.
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New Emerilware™ Kitchen Electrics Offer Maximum Flavor with Minimum Hassle

West Orange, NJ (June 29, 2006) — Whether you are a master chef adding to your cooking collection, or a kitchen rookie looking for home appliances to make your life easier, Emerilware’s new assortment of kitchen electrics will meet any cook’s needs. Celebrity Chef Emeril Lagasse and T-fal®, the world leader in electrical cooking appliances, have partnered to develop products that will deliver dishes in weeknight time with weekend taste. Available in November, the Emerilware Fryer, Grill & Panini Maker, and Steamer retail from $99.99 to $149.99.
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Chef Emeril Lagasse helped younger kids take their first steps into the kitchen with his New York Times best-selling cookbook for children titled Emeril’s There’s a Chef in My Soup! (2002). He then kicked it up a notch for older kids and adults in another New York Times best-seller written especially for families, Emeril’s There’s a Chef in my Family! (2004). Now, Chef Emeril is back with a cookbook that really takes you places in Emeril’s There’s a Chef in My World! (HarperCollins Children’s Books, October 2006).
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Emeril Lagasse is hoping to bring the centuries-old cooking vessel into more American kitchens

Tagines have been used for centuries in Morocco, but Food Network chef Emeril Lagasse is hoping to bring them into more American kitchens.

Recognizing the growing popularity of ethnic cuisine in this country, Lagasse has designed a modern version of a tagine for his Emerilware collection made by All-Clad Metalcrafters.
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The “Bam!” and the “Kick it up a notch” and all the rest of the shtick may get a little stale (OK, more than a little stale), but that Emeril Lagasse sure has a way of surprising us. And all of the other stuff aside, we need look no further than that to see his genius.

The last time I reviewed Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House at the MGM Grand, back in 2002, he was at the height of his reign as Emeril the TV Personality. I was feeling pretty certain, pre-visit, that the diverted attention would manifest itself in mediocrity, in a restaurant where the staff was on autopilot because their navigator had other fish to fry. Boy, was I wrong.
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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.

Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Emeril Lagasse will make Hill and McGraw’s time in New Orleans even more special on July fifth, when they host a special invitation-only luncheon at Emeril’s Restaurant.

Lagasse will cook up his signature New Orleans dishes for 120 guests, and the net proceeds from the event will go to the Neighbors Keeper Foundation and the Emeril Lagasse Foundation.

Both help charities with hurricane recovery and the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast region.

They’re calling the luncheon Feed The Soul, and attendees will also receive V-I-P passes to the acoustic pre-show party and V-I-P seats to that evening’s sold-out Soul2Soul Two Tour at the New Orleans Arena.
That performance also is benefiting the Gulf Coast region.

Emeril Lagasse was inducted May 20 into the MenuMasters Hall of Fame, a program run by the food service industry magazine Nation’s Restaurant News to honor leaders in restaurant and food development. In its nomination, the magazine credits Lagasse with ushering in the era of the celebrity chef.
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CHICAGO — Chef-restaurateur Emeril Lagasse, whose culinary skills, engaging smile and “BAM!” persona have made him one of the most recognizable culinary celebrities, has been selected as the 2006 inductee into the Nation’s Restaurant News MenuMasters Hall of Fame.

The television personality-author-restaurateur was honored on May 20 during the MenuMasters Awards ceremony at the Drake Hotel here. MenuMasters winners in a range of other special culinary categories also will be recognized at the ceremony.
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