Kick It Up a Notch with Planet Green Tonight: Emeril Green Premiers!
by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 07.14.08
Tonight, one of our favorite celebrity chefs (from right up the road in Fall River, Mass.), Emeril Lagasse, will be starring in a brand new series on Planet Green. Not one but SIX episodes will debut tonight – BAM! Called Emeril Green, Lagasse will be helping viewers solve their cooking dilemmas and will shares his philosophy for fresh, locally grown foods and inspires consumers by using high-quality produce, seafood and meats.
Picture an ultimate foodie fantasy store. Then drop in some real people who have real culinary challenges and watch as Lagasse comes to their rescue. What do you have? A recipe for a fun, new series that unleashes all the information about how everyday cooking can be healthy, organic, and eco-friendly.
Set in Whole Foods Market, Lagasse will enroll the store's knowledgeable team and other food experts to help real-life cooking-challenged individuals learn about and hand-pick the best foods. After shopping with each individual, Chef Lagasse will prepare a meal with each individual that demonstrates the convenience and ease of using fresh ingredients in everyday meals.
Emeril Green premiers tonight at 8pm. Check out the complete schedule for this evening over at Planet Green.
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I am looking forward to incorporating some more healthy food choices into my diet.
I am glad that Discovery started the Planet Green Network and is putting such a "green" message out there for people to follow. I was even more excited when I saw that there were going to be cooking shows featured on the channel. I was disappointed, however, that for a green cooking show it isn't really "green." The fact that Emeril is going to be using all sorts of meats (factory farms a major source of pollution [land, air, and water-based] as well as sea food [nothing that lives in water hasn't already been overfished]. Even farmed equivalents of sea food are detrimental to our oceans. Planet Green almost had it right. You want a "green" cooking show, broadcast one that contains only vegetarian or vegan recipes.
Sure. we could all be living on nutrient and vitamin infused soy protein. However many people don't want to. In order to inspire people to eat green(er) you must appeal to their appetite. People who want to eat meat and fish who are led to believe they must give it all up and become devotees of the soy-god to be green aren't going to do it. Baby steps, not radical change, is the only way paradigm shifts happen. Now i'm going back to my small scale, sustainably farmed, green and organic filet mignon. Try not be jealous.
I was looking foward to this show - I have been enjoying Planet Green...
But after seeing 2 episodes of Emeril's show.. there is NOTHING green about it. He hasn't used the word organic once and doesn't really seem to do anything to make these dishes green. Other than being in whole foods, what's green about it?
I love this network, but just dumping a big name into the mix doesn't really do it for me. Ed Begley, yes.. he's the embodiment of green - but Emeril?