I have watched Food Network more or less from its inception, when my cousin called me and told me “you need to watch this show, this guy is about to set himself on fire.”  Emeril Lagasse never did, in fact, combust, to my eternal shock (go back and watch some of the older episodes before Emeril became Emeril (TM), it’s astonishing how close the man lets his chef’s whites get to an open flame, and that’s coming from someone with enough burns to look like […]