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In this video, learn how to make Emeril’s muffuletta, tying together Sicilian and Creole flavors with cold cuts and a tangy olive salad that makes you feel like you’re standing in the French Quarter. Emeril’s version added mozzarella cheese and kalamata olives into the mix, but the longer it sits, the more the flavors of the sandwich all come together. Serve on an Italian loaf and enjoy a bite of history.
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00:00Bam is right, baby.
00:01Sicilian meets Creole meets love.
00:04Salvatore Lupo, a Sicilian immigrant,
00:06opened up Central Grocery on Decatur Street
00:08in the French Quarter.
00:09Farmers would come in at lunchtime,
00:11buy separate items, cold cuts, cheese, olive salad.
00:14This is where the muffledder was created.
00:16Not pure Sicilian, not Creole.
00:19It's the philosophy of different flavors coming together
00:22and it all making sense.
00:23Emeril Lagasse comes in later and does what he does,
00:26adds mozzarella, brings in Kalamata olives,
00:28and hits it with a bam.
00:30The muffledder is one of those sandwiches
00:31that the longer it sits, the better it becomes.
00:34So you gotta let it marinate.
00:36This sandwich is the history and why you go to New Orleans.
00:39I mean, I love the po' boy,
00:40but the muffledder, it's important, man.
00:43Emeril's addition to mozzarella, I ain't mad at it.
00:45It's delicious.
00:46Kalamata olives, add it to the jarred.
00:49Well done, Chef.
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