Emeril shows his green side on new show Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
Emeril's going green. The popular celebrity chef and restaurateur, who's as recognized by one name as he is by his catchphrases — "Bam" and "Kick it up a notch" — debuted his latest TV venture, "Emeril Green," Monday on Planet Green, an eco-lifestyle network offering programming on how to be more environmentally-friendly. In a recent phone interview from New York, where he was filming his third series of commercials for Crest toothpaste, Lagasse said he's no stranger to green living. "As much as I joked over the years with 'bam' and pork and butter, people don't know there's another side of me. 'Emeril Green' is like going back home for me," he said. "I [was] growing products organically when people didn't know how to spell it, especially for my restaurants."
For example, Lagasse said he has 80 acres of heirloom tomatoes. "I feel very, very connected with the soil," he said. Planet Green is the brain-child of Discovery Communications and replaced the Discovery Home channel last month, said Reenie Kuhlman, spokeswoman for Planet Green. The channel is distributed to about 50 million homes via cable and satellite, she said, and is available in this area through Comcast and Cablevision.