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My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
Emeril Lagasse
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Emeril Lagasse
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 15
Businessperson
Chef
Non-Fiction Writer
Restaurateur
Fall River
Massachusetts
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