Emeril Live! Up Close and Personal with Emeril Lagasse

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re looking at the pioneers of food television. Emeril Lagasse reflects on his unlikely start at the Food Network, how he’s different from his on-screen persona and why he just opened his first Portuguese restaurant. Plus, Michelle T. King tells the story of Fu Pei-mei, Taiwan’s first cooking TV star, our very own co-host and food TV star Sara Moulton answers caller cooking questions, and Adam Gopnik weighs in on the spectacle of Iron Chef.

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0:00.0	This is Most Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.
0:08.5	Today we're going behind the scenes of Food TV.
0:12.2	Emerald Agassi tells us about his rise on the Food Network.
0:15.8	We also find out about who Emerald is in real life.
0:19.6	People, you know, watching on television, they feel like they know me and they feel like
0:25.3	they can touch me and they feel like this ordinary guy is just going to have a conversation
0:31.2	with you.
0:32.3	You would think that I would have hundreds and hundreds of friends.
0:35.1	I don't.
0:36.1	And my wife, you know, she has dump trucks full of friends.
0:40.5	And, you know, I can't fill a votes wagon up with them. So...
0:45.6	Emerald Lagassee on and off camera. That's coming up later in the show.
0:50.8	Right now, we'll hear about another pioneer of food TV.
0:54.8	According to historian Michelle King, anyone from Taiwan, associates this song with a woman named
1:00.8	Fu Pei Mae.
1:05.7	Thank you, today, I'll give you to introduce this song, so Iou-hung-yue's because this time is not
1:11.5	so I first
1:12.3	to put
1:12.6	over 40 years
1:14.6	food presented
1:15.4	more than
1:15.8	4,000 recipes
	...

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