“I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.” — Emeril Lagasse Quote

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

I was never supposed to be a businessman. I was going to change the world. I was going to go back to Latin America and work on agrarian reform and equalize the differences between rich and poor.

If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that.