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.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.