Emeril Lagasse

You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?

Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn't know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 - most kids today do.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.