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Edible Education With Emeril

On this week's show, we go back to school for no ordinary education. We take an in-depth look at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and their flourishing Culinary Arts division — the only chef's training program offered at the high school level in the nation.

It wasn't until recently that the culinary arts discipline was added to the Institute's curriculum. The program's inception was due, in no small part, to Chef Emeril Lagasse. For the behind-the-scenes story of how the program got its start, we meet Emeril at Press Street Station on NOCCA's campus.

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