Macy’s Partners with Emeril

Macy's Inc. (Cincinnati) is adding celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse to its Culinary Council, an initiative that aims to impact the way customers shop, cook and eat at home. Lagasse will join fellow council members such as Todd English, Tyler Florence, Cat Cora, Rick Bayless, Ming Tsai and Govind Armstrong, as a face of Macy's housewares and food divisions.

“Lagasse is one of the most recognized chefs in the United States known for his culinary expertise and innovation,” says Jeff Kantor, president and genearl merchandise manager, Home, at Macy's. “His regional New Orleans cooking style adds a distinctly different dimension to the current roster of celebrated chefs on the council.”

The partnership will include bringing Lagasse's collection of stainless steel cookware with copper banding, created in conjunction with All-Clad, to its stores this summer.
Macy's Culinary Council chefs serve as the face of the department store chain’s housewares and food service divisions and help guide consumers in selecting cookware. In addition, Macy's has been reinterpreting and re-energizing the casual dining experience with its “fresh food fast” quick service, celebrity chef, in-store restaurants across the country, including Noodles by Takashi Yagihashi and Marcus Samuelsson's Marc Burger.