Emeril Live Season 9

Emeril fries up some classic Southern dishes as he breaks from conventional wisdom and shows that frying can be good – if it's done right.

Emeril explores the fusion of flavors found in Southwestern cuisine tonight, but not without some of his personal twists such as replacing masa with grits in his tamales.

Just off a 20-hour flight, Martin Yan visits the studio for an Asian cook-off. The thing is he keeps getting the smaller cuts of protein. Watch the challenge spurs each of them on to excellence and dishes one can't imagine.

Emeril is cooking nothing but these crustaceans tonight, but you won't be bored because he's serving them traditionally, snack-size, fusion-style – any way his imagination can design, and he's not short of inspiration.

It's all about sausage tonight, and Emeril's going to show not only how to use them, but how to make them. First he'll demonstrate two homemade sausage recipes, one so versatile he will use it in three subsequent recipes, and then he'll use the classic bratwurst in a yummy stew.