Foodies Connection Combat: Emeril Lagasse vs Nigella Lawson

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Connection Combat this week features two celebrity chefs: American Emeril Lagasse, known for "BAM!" exclamations on his "Emeril" cooking show, and English "domestic goddess" Nigella Lawsonknown for "Nigella Bites" and "Nigella Feasts". 

Here's how the game is played:

  1. Check your connection to Emeril Lagasse and Nigella Lawson (click "Connection to Me" in each profile pull-down menu).
  2. Click "Answer this post" below. Choose Team Lagasse  or Team Lawson and say how many degrees are in your chosen connection path.
  3. See if you can verify each relationship along your connection path with a reliable source [more explanation].
  4. Post comments below your answer as you progress and when you run into trouble. Someone else might be able to help.

The players with the closest verified connection wins! (For overachievers, there are seven additional ways to win and enter the Connection Combat Hall of Fame.)

Will you join us? Answer below.

This game runs from April 16-23.

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in The Tree House by Eowyn Walker G2G Astronaut (2.5m points)
edited by Eowyn Walker

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Both are 20 degrees, however Emeril is 20th. Cousin 3X…

25 Answers

+12 votes
Team Emeril at 25 degrees. BAM!
by Eowyn Walker G2G Astronaut (2.5m points)
Team Emeril 10th cousins, we share an 11th great grandmother. So BAM! Nothing removed straight up.
+12 votes

As Master Chef ,Delia Smith once said 'Come on, Let's be havin' you'

by Patrick Holland G2G6 Mach 5 (51.6k points)
+14 votes
22 From Emeril, 31 From Nigella.

Don't know if I've had a bigger "Blowout" before in one of these connection conflicts.
by Frank Abbeduto G2G4 (4.2k points)
+12 votes
I'm surprised to see how close I am to both of them, 23 from Nigella and 18 from Emeril. Team BAM this week, I guess!
by Erin Breen G2G6 Pilot (342k points)
+13 votes
Definitely a challenge here. There are evident problems with the first paths suggested for both. It appears to be Emeril at 21 degrees and Nigella at 24. I'll attempt both, and pick a side (or not!) when I'm farther along.
by Jean Paradis G2G6 Mach 1 (18.1k points)
Found a 16 degree line to Emeril via my husband's tree on Family Search, but it would take a lot of work to enter all those profiles. Hmmm.... should I try it?
Did it! Put in two generations up from my husband's grandparents, and connected to Emeril's Benoit line- connection to me is now 15!! (Also added 39 to my CC7 as a bonus!) Now to work on the rest of the profiles in the chain.

Here is the weevil-free, documented path from Emeril to me: dare I say BAM!

0: Emeril Lagasse

1: ↑ Emeril Lagasse (his father)

2: ↑ Emeril Lagasse (his father)

3: ↑ Herménégilde Lagasse (his father)

4: ↑ Joseph Lagace (his father)

5: ↑ Adèle Brodeur dit Lavigne (his mother)

6: ↑ Victoire Benoit (her mother)

7: ↑ Alexis Benoit (her father)

8: ↔ Joseph Benoît (his brother)

9: ↓ Michel Benoit (his son)

10: ↓ Cornelia Benoit (his daughter)

11: ↓ Nemese Paradis (her son)

12: ↓ Azarius Paradis (his son)

13: ↓ Armand Paradis (his son)

14: ↓ My husband (his son)

15: = Jean Hannaford (his wife)

I've done a 30 degree line to Nigella that goes through six countries. I'd like to try for the International Legionaire badge. May even be a contender for Veteran. 

0: Nigella Lawson

1: ↑ Nigel Lawson (her father)

2: ↑ Joan Davis (his mother)

3: ↑ Bernard Davis (her father)

4: ↑ Sarah Engel (his mother)

5: ↔ John Engel (her brother)

6: ↓ Charlotte Engel (his daughter)

7: = Riley Cody (her husband)

8: ↑ Joseph Cody (his father)

9: ↔ Michael Cody (his brother)

10: ↓ Tom Cody (his son)

11: = Ada Nelson (his wife)

12: ↑ Arthur Nielsen (her father)

13: ↔ James Nielsen (his brother)

14: ↓ Ernest Nelson (his son)

15: = Mildred Peabody (his wife)

16: ↑ Lloyd Peabody (her father)

17: ↑ Abraham Peabody (his father)

18: ↑ Nathaniel Peabody (his father)

19: ↔ Daniel Peabody (his brother)

20: = Betsey Holt (his wife)

21: ↔ Simeon Holt (her brother)

22: = Esther Brooks (his wife)

23: ↔ Mehitable Brooks (her sister)

24: ↓ Charles Pierce (her son)

25: ↓ Frank Pierce (his son)

26: = Ida Hannaford (his wife)

27: ↔ James Hannaford (her brother)

28: ↓ Paul Hannaford (his son)

29: ↓ Francis Hannaford (his son)

30: ↓ Jean Hannaford (his daughter)

+15 votes
* 24 degrees from Emeril and 24th cousins.

* 25 degrees from Nigella and no relation.

I have to say I'm with team Emeril, only because I'm not familiar with Nigella.

Bam!
by J Head G2G6 Mach 1 (16.8k points)
+14 votes

Team Lagasse: 22 degrees

by Ian Meadows G2G1 (1.7k points)
+12 votes
Foodies Connection Combat #16: Emeril Lagasse vs Nigella Lawson

Emeril Lagasse - 21° - 17th C
Nigella Lawson - 26°

I'm for Team Lagasse. Connection-wise, he goes through my mother's maternal line through Wilson/Lawson/Palmer/Higginbotham line. Nigella Lawson goes through my ex-BIL's line who have Private profiles. I'm going through my mother's Higginbotham line. Pat Brunson is 21 Degrees from Emeril Lagasse: 4 branches (5-3-1-13)

Pat Brunson-1754
    →
✖Betty Wilson-106973
    (her mother) →
✖Lila Lawson-13910
    (her mother) →
✖Harriet Palmer-32249
    (her mother) →
✖Sarah Palmer-30755
    (her mother) →
✖William Higginbotham-2417
    (her husband) →
✖Caleb Higginbotham-473
    (his father) →
✖Jacob Higginbotham-400
    (his brother) →
✖Charlotte Foreman-511
    (his wife) →
✖Francois Hoffpauir-102
    (her husband) →
✖Marie Périllard-33
    (his mother) →
✖Louise Paquet-239
    (her mother) →
✖Marie Anne Bernard-1267
    (her mother) →
✖Marguerite Bernard-1032
    (her sister) →
✖Jean François Audet-147
    (her son) →
✖Marc Audet-454
    (his son) →
✖Francois Audet-711
    (his son) →
✖François Audet-1551
    (his son) →
✖Pierre Audet-1550
    (his son) →
✖Alexina Audet-205
    (his daughter) →
✖Emeril Lagasse-612
    (her son) →
Emeril Lagasse-613
    (his son)
by Pat Brunson G2G6 Pilot (102k points)
Pat Brunson-1754  →
✖Betty Wilson-106973
    (her mother) →
✖Lila Lawson-13910
    (her mother) →
✖Harriet Palmer-32249
    (her mother) →
✖Sarah Palmer-30755 (her mother) →
✖William Higginbotham-2417 (her husband) →
✖Caleb Higginbotham-473 (his father) →
✖Jacob Higginbotham-400 (his brother) →
✖Charlotte Foreman-511 (his wife) →
Francois Hoffpauir-102 (her husband) →
✖Marie Périllard-33 (his mother) →
Louise Paquet-239 (her mother) →
Marie Anne Bernard-1267 (her mother) →
Marguerite Bernard-1032 (her sister) →
Jean François Audet-147 (her son) →
Marc Audet-454 (his son) →
Francois Audet-711 (his son) →
François Audet-1551 (his son) →
Pierre Audet-1550 (his son) →
Alexina Audet-205 (his daughter) →
Emeril Lagasse-612 (her son) →
Emeril Lagasse-613 (his son)

I have done what I can. There is a major snaffu around the collection of x's & I didn't hit the single x's. I have lost the pattern & don't know when the seizures will let me start again.
+12 votes
Team Lagasse (17C1XsR) & 21 degrees distant noses ahead of Team Lawson at 25 degrees.
by Frank Blankenship G2G6 Pilot (131k points)
0. Emeril Lagasse.

1. Emeril Lagasse (his father)

2. Alexina Audet (his mother)

3. Pierre Audet (her father)

4. Malvina Audet (his sister)

5. Francois Goulet (her husband)

6. Francois Xavier Goulet (his father)

7. Joseph Goulet (his father)

8. Anastasie Royer (his wife)

9. Jean Baptiste Royer (her brother)

10. Louis Rodier (his son)

11.Marie Rodier (his daughter)

12. Jennie Racicot (her daughter)

13. Ida Chartrand (her daughter6.

14. Robert Godin (her son)

15. Robert Godin (his son)

16. Gail Harris (his wife)

17. Mary Hancock (her mother)

18. Evelyn Poole (her mother)

19. Frank Gregory (her husband)

20. Lucille Gregory (his sister)

21. Irene Blair (her daughter)

22. Frank Blankenship (her son)
+12 votes
Team Lagasse 21 degrees, 20c, 1r, mrca Cromwell-23, Freville-3, vs Team Lawson 23 degrees

Emeril Lagasse, Lagasse-613, is 43 degrees from Mildred Wheeler, Wheeler-18799: 1 branch (44), 21st cousin once removed,  connection through a common ancestor. Four countries: the United States, Canada, France, and England.

0. Emeril Lagasse, Lagasse-613

1. his father, Lagasse-612

2. his mother, Audet-295

3. her father, Audet-1550

4. his father, Audet-1551

5. his mother,Tibeault-139

6. her mother, Miville-164

7. her father, Miville_Deschenes-11

8. his father, Miville-535

9. his father, Miville-34

10. his mother, Baillon-1

11. her father, Baillon-2

12. his mother, Maillard-3

13. her father, Maillard-4

14. his father, Maillard-5

15. his father, De_Maillard-1

16. his mother, Whitney-71

17. her father, Whitney-200

18. his father, Whitney-880

19. his father, Whitney-1774

20. his mother, Freville-28

21. her mother, Cromwell-23

22. her son, Freville-2

23. his son, Freville-1

24. his son, Freville-31

25. his son, Freville-4

26. his daughter, Freville-10

27. her daughter, Willoughby-975

28. her daughter, Hilton-716

29. her son, Thimbleby-4

30. his son, Thimbleby-3

31. his daughter, Thimbleby-2

32. her son, Welby-4

33. his daughter, Welby-8, Magna Carta Gateway Ancestor, Descendant of Magna Carta Surety Baron, Saher de Quincy, Quincy-226. Olive (Welby) Farwell migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1624-1640).

34. her daughter, Farwell-69

35. her daughter, Bates-2239

36. her daughter, Richardson-6924

37. her son, Coburn-618

38. his daughter, Coburn-624

39. her son, Wheeler-18871

40. his son, Wheeler-18812

41. his son, Wheeler-18807

42. his son, Wheeler-18911

43. his daughter, Wheeler-18799

Emeril Lagasse, Lagasse-613, is 22 degrees from Mildred Wheeler, Wheeler-18799, three branches (14-2-7)

0. Emeril Lagasse, Lagasse-613

1. his father, Lagasse-612

2. his father, Lagasse-252

3. his mother, Dupré-1367

4. her mother, Laurence-869

5. her father, Laurence-1186

6. his father, Laurence-1185

7. his mother, Riel-293

8. her mother, Quintin-73

9. her father, Quintin-46

10. his brother, Quintin-50

11. his son, Dubois-3431

12. his son, DuBois-3923

13. his daughter, Dubois-2611

14. her husband, Adams-35571

15. his brother, Adams-31345

16. his wife, Palmateer-357

17. her father, Palmateer-63

18. his brother, Palmateer-67

19. his daughter, Palmateer-1115

20. her son, Wheeler-18807

21. his son, Wheeler-18911

22. his daughter, Wheeler-18799

Nigella Lawson, Lawson-4692, is 23 degrees, six branches (2-3-6-2-4-7)

0. Nigella Lawson, Lawson-4692

1. her brother,  Lawson-4695

2. private person

3. their father, Monckton-85

4. his father, Monckton-90

5. his wife, Hore-Ruthven-1

6. her mother, Lampson-56

7. her father, Lampson-125

8. his father, Lampson-94

9. his mother, Powell-8853

10. her sister, Powell-8850

11. her husband, Wheeler-14935

12. his sister, Wheeler-19513

13. her husband, Allen-1848

14 his brother, Allen-1852

15. his son, Allen-1840

16. his daughter, Allen-51383

17. her husband, Cobb-9995

18. his mother, Wheeler-20339

19. her brother, Wheeler-18871

20. his son, Wheeler-18812

21. his son, Wheeler-18807

22. his son, Wheeler-18911

23. his daughter, Wheeler-18799
by Mildred Wheeler G2G6 Mach 8 (85.1k points)
edited by Mildred Wheeler
+14 votes
Team Emeril! 16 Degrees.  Will run thru the verification tomorrow.

Nigella (Love her!) 24 Degrees.

19 Apr 2024 - Ran thru the verification - all verified!   7th Cousins once removed!  Woohoo.

Also found out that we share a Patriot of the American Revolution, Julien Chouinard (ca 1742 - 1810) - so Emeril's daughter can join DAR!  Woohoo!
by Cathleen Babineau G2G1 (1.8k points)
edited by Cathleen Babineau
+12 votes

I am related to two of the 'Foodies' and I end up on team Lagasse.

18º Emeril Lagasse: 23rd cousins/2xr MRCA Thurstin (Whitney) de Whitney

26º Paul Hollywood: 27th cousins/2xr MRCA Gerard (Gaurnay) de Gaurnay

Other non-related Foodies by degree:

23º Matty Matheson; 24º Nigella Lawson and Martha Steward; 25º Ree Drummond; 26º Maggie Beer; 28º Danny Trejo; 29º Molly Yeh; 30º Joop Braakhekke; 33º Michael Chow; 47º Mary Hunnings

The Foodie that I am MOST PROUD of being related to, though, is

17º Julia Carolyn (McWilliam) Child: 8th cousins/2xr MRCA John Stone (1618-1683)

I'm surprised she was not listed!? Chef and American Spy in WWII...

BAM and Bon Appetit!

World War II Spies Image 14

by Carol Baldwin G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
+11 votes
Team Lagasse 28 degrees (25th cousins twice removed)

Team Lawson 24 degrees
by Kari Undbekken G2G6 Mach 6 (60.3k points)
+11 votes
Emeril Lagasse is my 20th cousin once removed. Who knew?
by Martha Slater G2G6 Mach 1 (12.1k points)
+12 votes
Team Emeril  at 23 degrees while Nigella is at 25 degrees. Also, Emeril is my 20th cousin twice removed.
by Judith Fry G2G6 Mach 7 (77.1k points)

     0. Emerill Lagasse

  1. his father Emeril John Lagasse
  2. his father Emeril John Lagasse Sr
  3. his mother Exilia Dupre
  4. her mother Marie Zoe Laurence
  5. her mother Marie Zoe Dupuis
  6. her father Joseph Dupuis
  7. his father Paul Dupuis
  8. his mother Marguerite Prejean
  9. her sister Marie Josephe Prejean
  10. her daughter Marie Magdeline Duon
  11. her husband Jean Baptiste Montet
  12. his sister Marguerite Montet
  13. her daughter Anastasie Trahan
  14. her son Levi Hargraves
  15. his son Robert Hargraves
  16. his son Ellis Hargraves Sr
  17. his wife Dorothy Perkins
  18. her father Joseph Perkins
  19. his mother Martha Jones
  20. her sister Caroline Jones
  21. her daughter Nora Trenner
  22. her daughter My Mom
  23. her daughter ME
+12 votes
I am 23 degrees from Emeril and 25 degrees from Nigella. Emeril's 20th g grandmother is my 22nd great grandmother. Team Emeril it is!
by Arleen Allen G2G3 (3.3k points)
+11 votes
Not only am I closer to Emeril, 20° versus 23°, he and I are 21st cousins three times removed through Matilda (Giffard) d’Evreux.
by Kris Kreiner G2G6 (6.5k points)
+10 votes

It's close, but NIGELLA wins out!

by Jerry Medlock G2G3 (3.7k points)
+9 votes
I am only 14° from Emeril, my 8th cousin, while I am 25° from Nigella.
by Liza Gervais G2G6 Pilot (393k points)
+11 votes
24 degrees from Emreil. 17 degrees from Nigella. I choose Team Lawson (I also heard her speak once - very entertaining)
by Sue Bramley G2G5 (6.0k points)

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