Playboy Interview: Emeril Lagasse

Playboy Interview: Emeril LagasseEmeril Lagasse hits the stage to the type of whooping and hollering normally reserved for, say, Chris Rock or Eddie Vedder. Wearing a starched white coat and a toque, he hunches over a hunk of beef, which he gleefully pierces. Into the incisions he stuffs cloves of garlic. "Should we kick it up?" he asks, and a raucous audience of police and firemen yell back, "More! Yeah!"Lagasse adds more garlic. Thirty, maybe 40 cloves.The meat is shoved in...