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Emeril John Lagasse ( ; born October 15, 1959)〔 is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and cookbook author. A regional James Beard Award winner, he is perhaps most notable for his Food Network shows ''Emeril Live'' and ''Essence of Emeril,'' as well as catchphrases such as, "Kick it up a notch!" and "BAM!" Lagasse's portfolio of media, products, and restaurants generates an estimated US$150 million annually in revenue. ==Personal life== Lagasse was born on October 15, 1959, in Fall River, Massachusetts to a French-Canadian Québécois father, John Lagassé, and Portuguese mother, Hilda. Lagasse worked in a Portuguese bakery as a teenager where he discovered his talent for cooking and subsequently enrolled in a culinary arts program at Diman Regional Avocational Technical High School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emeril Lagasse Biography )〕 His talents as a percussionist earned him a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music but he chose instead to attend Johnson & Wales University in hopes of becoming a chef. He met his first wife, Elizabeth Kief, while working at a restaurant called "Venus De Milo" to pay his way through school.〔 He attended Johnson and Wales in 1978 and the school later awarded him an honorary doctorate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chef Emeril Lagasse: Biography )〕 In 1985, Lagasse succeeded Paul Prudhomme as executive chef of Commander's Palace in New Orleans under Richard Brennan, Sr.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emeril Lagasse Biography )〕 After the birth of daughters Jessica and Jillian,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography for Emeril Lagasse )〕 Elizabeth Kief and Lagasse divorced. Lagasse married a second time to a fashion designer, Tari Hohn, but that too ended in divorce.〔 Lagasse was married a third time on May 13, 2000 to a real estate broker, Alden Lovelace.〔 He and Lovelace had a son, Emeril John Lagasse IV, on March 2003, and a daughter, Meril Lovelace Lagasse, on December 10, 2004.〔 In 2010, Lagasse appeared in a commercial to raise awareness for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Also starring in the commercial were Sandra Bullock, Peyton and Eli Manning, Jack Del Rio, Drew Brees, James Carville, Blake Lively, and John Goodman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emeril Lagasse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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