Carnival Cruise Line Taps Emeril Lagasse as Chief Culinary Officer

Carnival Cruise Line introduced it has tapped famend chef Emeril Lagasse as chief culinary officer of its 24-ship fleet. The chef already had a Carnival partnership, together with his common Emeril’s Bistro 1396 venue on Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration.

An Expansion of Chef’s Bistro Partnership

Chef Emeril Lagasse, a James Beard Award winner well-known for his New Orleans-style Creole and Cajun delicacies, is the brand new chief culinary officer for the 24 ships within the Carnival Cruise Line fleet.

Emeril’s Bistro 1396 is a specialty eating choice on Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration, and will probably be a featured venue on the new-build Carnival Jubilee, which is scheduled to start service from Galveston in late 2023.

Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy stated, ”Food is essential to the enjoyable of a Carnival cruise. Emeril’s eating places on our two new ships have been an incredible addition to our eating choices and visitors rave concerning the meals, which may even be on Carnival Jubilee come subsequent December. With Emeril’s culinary experience and broader profile on our ships, together with our wildly common partnership with Food Network star Guy Fieri, Carnival will function two iconic skills within the meals and eating trade throughout our fleet.”

According to the cruise line, Lagasse will work with Carnival’s cooks, providing insights into meals tendencies and methods, and will probably be concerned with future menu gadgets and eating ideas. In the fleet’s primary eating rooms, sure entrées will probably be famous as “Emeril recommends.”

Chef Lagasse stated, ”I’ve been creating and working eating places for a few years however growing my eating places with Carnival and studying concerning the cruise trade has been an exhilarating expertise. I like Carnival’s give attention to meals and enjoyable and the various nice eating choices they provide their visitors. I’m trying ahead to constructing on our success at sea with Carnival’s distinctive culinary crew.”

In addition to his eating places throughout the nation, Lagasse has revealed cookbooks and hosts tv cooking reveals, together with his present present “Emeril Cooks,” which debuted on Roku earlier this yr.

Lagasse’s bistro partnership with Carnival was introduced in 2019. The venue launched when Mardi Gras started service in January 2020. Located within the French Quarter Zone on Mardi Gras and Carnival Celebration, Emeril’s Bistro delicacies consists of dishes reminiscent of recent seafood ceviche, roasted duck and andouille sausage gumbo, and jambalaya.

Lagasse, Duffy to Ring In 2023 in NYC

Lagasse will be a part of Duffy in New York this weekend, the place Carnival is sponsoring the countdown clock and serving as a musical sponsor for the enduring Times Square ball drop.

Carnival’s participation within the New Year’s Eve celebration is likely one of the launching factors for the cruise line’s new “Choose Fun Together” advertising marketing campaign. Duffy and Lagasse will flip the change on the New Year’s Eve countdown clock collectively, the road stated.

The occasion coincides with the cruise line’s line growth of operations in New York City, with year-round departures from the Manhattan Cruise Terminal on Carnival Venezia starting in June. Carnival Venezia, previously the Costa Venezia within the Costa Cruises fleet, will sail to the Caribbean, Bahamas, Bermuda, and Canada/New England from the New York port.

Mardi Gras, voted 2022 Best Overall Cruise Ship within the Cruise Hive Ship Awards, debuted in 2020 and is home-ported at Port Canaveral, Florida. Carnival Celebration entered service in November 2022 from Miami. Carnival Jubilee is beneath development at Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany.