Culinary Library Quotes by Emeril Lagasse

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah,…

— Emeril Lagasse

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

— Emeril Lagasse

I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels.

— Emeril Lagasse

We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.

— Emeril Lagasse

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing…

— Emeril Lagasse

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

— Emeril Lagasse

I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've been to…

— Emeril Lagasse

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or…

— Emeril Lagasse

I mean, if you love what you do-whether you're an auto mechanic or you sew clothes or you cook-it's all about personal passion and…

— Emeril Lagasse

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right…

— Emeril Lagasse

I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his…

— Emeril Lagasse

What I go for in my cooking is sinful, bold and real.

— Emeril Lagasse

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin…

— Emeril Lagasse

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and…

— Emeril Lagasse

We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

— Emeril Lagasse