Emeril Lagasse is one of the great guys of food.
A true mensch.
He can be single-handedly credited with popularizing food with the post baby-boom generation, inventing the Food Network, and making gastronomic passion, the honing of kitchen skills, and the ability to wax poetic about chanterelles and farmstead cheeses, popular with heterosexual men.
Yeah, that’s what we credit Lagasse with the most: Making gastronomy safe for straight guys.