Best Cheeseburger in the Country is in Charleston...

[emilybh]

Originally Posted by hapscat

whos emeril ?

Emeril Lagasse is a famous chef who is probably single handedly responsible for making the Food Network and cooking shows on cable TV so popular -- especially with men -- because he's just a regular plain spoken blue collar guy from FAll River, Massachusetts--who REALLY KNOWS FOOD AND HOW TO MAKE IT TASTE GOOD and he makes cooking seem like a macho fun thing for guys to do.

He went to Johnson & Wales Culinary Arts school back when they just started and soon after that landed a job with Commander's Palace in New Orleans, LA which was one of the five best gourmet restaurants in New Orleans at the time in the late 70's early 80's.

Now he's got restaurants all over the country and has put out several cookbooks and has a few TV shows. His becoming so famous and making cooking a "cool" thing to do has made Johnson & Wales famous and enabled them to expand with multiple campuses all over the country . One of them was here in Charleston until Bank of America bank-rolled the school and wooed them to move to Charlotte, NC to a brand new campus.

[Jim3310]

"I know Emeril and he's no Rachel Ray".

Emeril is a macho chef for the ladies ratings, not the guys!

[meks]

Originally Posted by hapscat

bessingers . probably similar to melvins . being there bro's in such .

it's exactly the same, the same people ran/run it with the same recipes etc etc...

not to toot his horn but Melvin made them all successful, even his dad's place a half a century or more ago

melvin ran bessingers since it opened decades ago

thomas jr who runs it now is melvins brother's son, all trained and worked for melvin for decades as well

I know because I used to work for Melvin, the first one he actually called Melvins was in MtP, still there... I helped open that one 20 something yrs ago with T-Jack, the Bessinger family and the Easterby's

before that they were all just called Bessingers... before that Piggy Park on hwy 17S... before that Joe's...

anyway, they are all delicious IMHO

[hapscat]

wow , thanks to all . very informative . i knew they were all related but not how . thats cool labout emiril too .

[hapscat]

Originally Posted by meks

it's exactly the same, the same people ran/run it with the same recipes etc etc...

not to toot his horn but Melvin made them all successful, even his dad's place a half a century or more ago

melvin ran bessingers since it opened decades ago

thomas jr who runs it now is melvins brother's son, all trained and worked for melvin for decades as well

I know because I used to work for Melvin, the first one he actually called Melvins was in MtP, still there... I helped open that one 20 something yrs ago with T-Jack, the Bessinger family and the Easterby's

before that they were all just called Bessingers... before that Piggy Park on hwy 17S... before that Joe's...

anyway, they are all delicious IMHO

yea those easterbys are fine folks too . we had something go terribly wrong at there restaurant . not that we asked for anything . but they made it good . ithink a waitress lost the credit card or something .great seafood.