The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, theyre doing their own challenges. Its back to cooking. And its real cooking. – Emeril Lagasse

My inspiration was my mom. Shes a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that. – Emeril Lagasse
I cant tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal. – Emeril Lagasse
Its interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids friends know me from Wedding Crashers, and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think its cool. What goes around comes around. – Jane Seymour
