Emeril Lagasse Cooks Up Florida Deal
Mark David Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, owner of nine popular restaurants from Florida to Pennsylvania and New Orleans to Las Vegas, hopes to whip up a deep-pocketed buyer for his elegantly appointed mansion near the posh resort community of Destin, Fla., on the Panhandle’s Gulf Coast, which has popped up for sale at $5.25 million.The Massachusetts-born entrepreneur, who has written more than a dozen cookbooks and licensed a warehouse worth of food and kitchen products, and his wife, Alden Lovelace, came to own the home in a rather unusual way.