Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse

Emeril visits chef Marcus Samuelsson in his homeland of Sweden to get a firsthand look at the recent food movement known as New Nordic. Emeril experiences cooking without electricity with Michelin star chef, Niklas Ekstedt, fishes for langoustines in a hail storm and gets a taste of Marcus' globally inspired take on New Nordic at his restaurant, Norda.

Emeril and chef Mario Batali travel to Shanghai on a delicious quest to find their favorite version of the iconic Shanghai soup dumpling. Both are intrigued by the engineering feat that is packaging meat and hot soup inside a thin blanket of pasta. Their journey culminates in an impromptu dumpling cook-off where they put their learnings to the test and are judged by local dumpling masters.

Emeril meets up with chef José Andrés in his homeland of Spain to explore the past, present and future of modernist cuisine. While in Barcelona, they receive unprecedented access to Ferran Adrià's El Bulli Lab where the revered chef explains how he is dissecting and categorizing the history of food. They also get a sneak peek into Albert Adrià's highly anticipated modernist restaurant, Enigma.